Rethinking commodification : cases and readings in law and culture /

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Imprint:New York : New York University Press, c2005.
Description:xv, 450 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Critical America
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5701855
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Other authors / contributors:Ertman, Martha M.
Williams, Joan, 1952-
Posner, Richard A.
Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-
ISBN:0814722288 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814722296 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : freedom, equality, and the many futures of commodification / Martha M. Ertman and Joan C. Williams
  • Introduction : the subject and object of commodification / Margaret Jane Radin and Madhavi Sunder
  • Pt. I. Classic texts of commodification theory
  • A. Definitions : commodity and commodification
  • Commodities and the politics of value / Arjun Appadurai
  • B. Contested commodities : babies/parental rights and obligations
  • The economics of the baby shortage / Elisabeth M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
  • In the matter of baby M
  • In search of Pharaoh's daughter / Patricia J. Williams
  • Johnson v. Calvert
  • C. Defaulting to freedom or to equality : treating some things as inalienable
  • Property rules, liability rules, and inalienability : one view of the cathedral / Guido Calabresi and A. Douglas Melamed
  • Contested commodities / Margaret Jane Radin
  • Moore v. the regents of the University of California
  • D. Distinguishing between exchanges and gifts
  • The gift relationship : from human blood to social policy / Richard M. Titmuss
  • Giving, trading, thieving, and trusting : how and why gifts become exchanges, and (more importantly) vice versa / Carol M. Rose
  • E. Commodification and community
  • What money can't buy : the moral limits of markets / Michael J. Sandel
  • Community and conscription / Richard A. Posner
  • Pt. II. New voices on commodification theory
  • A. Commodifying intellectual and cultural property
  • Culture, commodification, and native American cultural patrimony / Sarah Harding
  • U.S. v. Corrow
  • Property in personhood / Madhavi Sunder
  • B. Commodifying identities
  • Kwanzaa and the commodification of black culture / Regina Austin
  • Eating the other : desire and resistance / Bell Hooks
  • Cities and queer space : staking a claim to global cosmopolitanism / Dereka Rushbrook
  • Selling out : the gay and lesbian movement goes to market / Alexandra Chasin
  • C. Commodifying intimacies
  • 1. Commodifying sex
  • "Sex in the [foreign] city" : commodification and the female sex tourist / Tanya Kateri Hernandez
  • Taking money for bodily services / Martha C. Nussbaum
  • The currency of sex : prostitution, law, and commodification / Ann Lucas
  • 2. Commodifying care
  • Fore love nor money : the commodification of care / Deborah Stone
  • Unbending gender : why family and work conflict and what to do about it / Joan C. Williams
  • Minnesota v. Bachmann
  • Commodification and women's household labor / Katharine Silbaugh
  • 3. Commodifying family relations
  • What's wrong with a parenthood market? : a new and improved theory of commodification / Martha M. Ertman
  • Home economics : what is the difference between a family and a corporation? / Teemu Ruskola
  • Hard bargains : the politics of sex / Linda R. Hirshman and Jane E. Larson
  • 4. Commodifying bodies and body parts
  • A framework for reparations claims / Keith N. Hylton
  • National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA)
  • Increasing the supply of transplant organs : the virtues of an options market / Lloyd R. Cohen
  • Future markets in everything / Noam Schieber
  • D. Retheorizing commodification
  • To commodify or not to commodity : that is not the question / Joan C. Williams and Viviana A. Zelizer
  • The multivalent commodity : on the supplementarity of value and values / Miranda Joseph
  • Afterword : whither commodification? / Carol M. Rose.