Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
1 Do We All Have ‘Feminised’ Bodies Now?......Page 17
Bodies, persons and things......Page 21
The feminised body......Page 24
Property as a bundle of rights......Page 29
Property rights, personal rights and the ‘gift relationship’......Page 33
The organisation of this book......Page 38
2 Property, Objectification and
Commodification......Page 42
The objectification of women’s bodies: lessons from classical Athens......Page 48
Liberal political theory: property in the body and property in the person......Page 52
Contract, property and mutual recognition in Hegel......Page 62
Marx, Delphy and Arendt: alienation and women’s reproductive labour......Page 69
3 The Lady Vanishes: What’s Missing from the
Stem Cell Debate......Page 74
What are the risks?......Page 78
Women’s property in ova: a Lockean basis......Page 83
Hegel, contract and stem cells......Page 87
Women’s alienation from their own reproductive labour......Page 89
The woman as receptacle and the limitations of contract......Page 94
4 Umbilical Cord Blood Banks:
Seizing Surplus Value......Page 99
Risks and benefits......Page 102
If cord blood is property, whose is it?......Page 110
Respecting altruism, recreating the commons......Page 118
5 The Gender Politics of Genetic Patenting......Page 124
Human DNA: object or person?......Page 130
The inventive step and \'dumb\' matter......Page 136
6 Biobanks: Consent, Commercialisation
and Charitable Trusts......Page 141
Consent, empowerment and gift......Page 146
Do biobank participants deserve property rights? If so, which ones?......Page 149
7 The New French Resistance:
Commodification Rejected?......Page 157
Commercialisation and its discontents: the CCNE as exemplar of French principles......Page 159
Patrimoine, patriarchy and protection......Page 163
Gift and altruistic donation......Page 169
Is the body the person?......Page 174
8 Tonga, the Genetic Commons
and No Man’s Land......Page 178
The Tongan and Maori cases......Page 181
Communal ownership and the ‘new enclosures’: does the metaphor fit the human genome?......Page 187
9 Afterword......Page 195
Bibliography......Page 198
Index......Page 216