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Book Synopsisaeo An important contribution to the literature on the relationship between women and property. aeo Evaluates the concept of property and uses important insights in recent feminist thought to suggest a new direction in the theory of property which systematically incorporates womena s work.
Trade Review"Donna Dickenson has chosen to focus upon the propertylessness and impaired agency that continue to mark the situation of a large number of women in Western societies and the lives of the overwhelming majority in the developing world. She advocates their case in a lucid and compelling argument and engages her readers' interest in such an effective way that her book must count as a major contribution to the study of women and gender across the boundaries of academic disciplines."
Ursula Vogel, University of Manchester, Women's Philosophy ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction.
1. Property, Particularism and Moral Persons.
2. Origins, Narratives and Households.
3. Contract, Marriage and Property in the Person.
4. Property and Moral Self-Development.
5. Labour, Alienation and Reproduction.
6. Another Sort of Subject?.
7. Reconstructing Property.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
