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001 2012046764
003 DLC
005 20140207080122.0
008 130122s2013 nju b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012046764
020 $a9780691150864 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aJC585$b.P444 2013
082 00 $a323.44$223
084 $aPHI019000$aPOL010000$aSOC028000$aLAW074000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aPhillips, Anne,$d1950-
245 10 $aOur bodies, whose property? /$cAnne Phillips.
264 1 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2013]
300 $aviii, 202 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.
520 $a"No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as property owners with the right to do as they wish with their bodies. Others do not use the language of property, but are similarly insistent on the rights of free individuals to decide for themselves whether to engage in commercial transactions for sex, reproduction, or organ sales. Drawing on analyses of rape, surrogacy, and markets in human organs, Our Bodies, Whose Property? challenges notions of freedom based on ownership of our bodies and argues against the normalization of markets in bodily services and parts. Anne Phillips explores the risks associated with metaphors of property and the reasons why the commodification of the body remains problematic. What, she asks, is wrong with thinking of oneself as the owner of one's body? What is wrong with making our bodies available for rent or sale? What, if anything, is the difference between markets in sex, reproduction, or human body parts, and the other markets we commonly applaud? Phillips contends that body markets occupy the outer edges of a continuum that is, in some way, a feature of all labor markets. But she also emphasizes that we all have bodies, and considers the implications of this otherwise banal fact for equality. Bodies remind us of shared vulnerability, alerting us to the common experience of living as embodied beings in the same world. Examining the complex issue of body exceptionalism, Our Bodies, Whose Property? demonstrates that treating the body as property makes human equality harder to comprehend"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aLiberty.
650 0 $aCapitalism.
650 0 $aHuman body.
650 0 $aProperty.
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / Political.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLAW / Property.$2bisacsh