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An edition of Our bodies, whose property? (2013)

Our bodies, whose property?

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"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"--

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ch. 1. What's So Special about the Body?
Ch. 2. Property Models of Rape
Ch. 3. Bodies for Rent? The Case of Commercial Surrogacy
Ch. 4. Spare Parts and Desperate Need
Ch 5. The Individualism of Property Claims
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
323.44
Library of Congress
JC585 .P444 2013, JC585.P444 2013

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Pagination
viii, 202 pages
Number of pages
202

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26917747M
Internet Archive
ourbodieswhosepr0000phil
ISBN 10
0691150869
ISBN 13
9780691150864
LCCN
2012046764
OCLC/WorldCat
820123464

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OL19704568W

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