Selves, persons, individuals : philosophical perspectives on women and legal obligations /
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| Author / Creator: | Richardson, Janice, 1961- |
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004. |
| Description: | vi, 169 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5209163 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- 1.. Introduction
- Recent History of Feminist Legal Studies
- A Problem with the Dominant Approach to Feminist Legal Theory
- My Response
- Feminists in Philosophy
- Chapter Summaries
- Cutting Across Disciplines
- 2.. Emergence, Dynamic Systems and Identity
- 'Being There'
- Battersby and Oyama
- Agency
- Feminism, Essentialism and Law
- 3.. Cornell's 'Imaginary Domain'
- The Reasonable Man
- Cornell's Approach to Tort: Free and Equal Persons
- Rawls and the Imaginary Domain
- Thought Experiment: Nozick's Application of Cornell's Legal Test
- Cornell, Autonomy and Self-Ownership
- Comparison with Themes from Chapter 2
- 4.. Tort and the Technology of Risk
- Governmentality and the Common Law
- Women's Risks
- Wrongful Birth Cases
- Women and Technologies of Power
- Cornell and Ewald
- 5.. The Sexual Contract
- Hobbes' Story
- Defending Pateman
- The Relationship between the Social Contract, Marriage Contracts and Employment Contracts
- The Marriage Contract
- The Employment Contract
- 6.. Possessive Individualism
- Possessive Individualism/Self-Ownership/Property in the Person
- 'Kettle Logic'
- Pateman/Marx: 'Old Issues Reconsidered'
- Okin's Attack upon Possessive Individualism/Self-Ownership/Property in the Person
- The Education of 'Possessive Individuals'
- New Contractualism, Old Problems?
- 7.. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Web Sites
- Cases
- Legislation
- Index
