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Selves, Persons, Individuals : Philosophical Perspectives on Women and Legal Obligations, Whilst feminist philosophy has frequently engaged with political theory, this book considers instead legal theory and the practical operation of law. The work considers some of the contested meanings of what it is to be a self, a person or an individual i, Selves, Persons, Individuals : Philosophical Perspectives on Women and Legal Obligations
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  • Selves, Persons, Individuals : Philosophical Perspectives on Women and Legal Obligations
  • Written by author Janice Richardson
  • Published by Ashgate Publishing, Limited, 5/1/2004
  • Whilst feminist philosophy has frequently engaged with political theory, this book considers instead legal theory and the practical operation of law. The work considers some of the contested meanings of what it is to be a self, a person or an individual i
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1 Introduction 1
Recent history of feminist legal studies 2
A problem with the dominant approach to feminist legal theory 7
My response 10
Feminists in philosophy 13
Chapter summaries 14
Cutting across disciplines 16
2 Emergence, dynamic systems and identity 19
'Being there' 20
Battersby and Oyama 28
Agency 30
Feminism, essentialism and law 34
3 Cornell's 'imaginary domain' 43
The reasonable man 44
Cornell's approach to tort : free and equal persons 46
Rawls and the imaginary domain 51
Thought experiment : Nozick's application of Cornell's legal test 52
Cornell, autonomy and self-ownership 56
Comparison with themes from chapter 2 59
4 Tort and the technology of risk 63
Governmentality and the common law 65
Women's risks 73
Wrongful birth cases 75
Women and technologies of power 81
Cornell and Ewald 84
5 The sexual contract 89
Hobbes' story 91
Defending Pateman 96
The relationship between the social contract, marriage contracts and employment contracts 100
The marriage contract 102
The employment contract 110
6 Possessive individualism 115
Possessive individualism/self-ownership/property in the person 116
'Kettle logic' 120
Pateman/Marx : 'old issues reconsidered' 123
Okin's attack upon possessive individualism/self-ownership/property in the person 124
The education of 'possessive individuals' 127
New contractualism, old problems? 129
7 Conclusion 135


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