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Property, women, and politics : subjects or objects? / Donna Dickenson.

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Property, women, and politics : subjects or objects? / Donna Dickenson.
Author
Dickenson, Donna
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1997.

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viii, 231 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Women > Economic conditions
  • Women > Legal status, laws, etc
  • Women > Social conditions
  • Women's Rights
  • Women's rights
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-225) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Property, Particularism and Moral Persons. Munzer: a propertyless world? Property, women and theory. Virtue, property and agency -- 2. Origins, Narratives and Households. Property and narrative. Aristotle: 'Nature has distinguished between the female and the slave'. Wives, mistresses, slaves and prostitutes: women in Greek property law -- 3. Contract, Marriage and Property in the Person. Contract, sexual and social: Locke and Pateman. Women, property and marriage: the legal background to contractarian liberalism -- 4. Property and Moral Self-Development. Hegel: 'Everyone must have property'. The marriage 'contract': a shameful idea? Poverty and prostitution: Flora Tristan -- 5. Labour, Alienation and Reproduction.
ISBN
  • 0813524571 (cloth)
  • 081352458X (paper)
LCCN
^^^97021504^
OCLC
36977246
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library