Feminism confronts homo economicus Book

	Introduction : feminism confronts homo economicus
Pt. I	Law and economics and neoclassical economic theory	1
1	Economic rhetoric, economic individualism, and the law and economics school	3
2	The demoralization of economics : can we recover from Bentham and return to Smith?	20
3	Separative and soluble selves : dichotomous thinking in economics	32
Pt. II	Feminism confronts neoclassical economic theory and law and economics	57
4	Playing with fire : feminist legal theorists and the tools of economics	61
5	Feminism and eutrophic methodologies	94
6	Private property, the private subject, and women : can women truly be owners of capital?	117
7	Nest eggs and stormy weather : law, culture, and black women's lack of wealth	131
8	Deconstructing the state-market divide : the rhetoric of regulation from workers' compensation to the world trade organization	147
Pt. III	The costs of the free market : theories of collective responsibility and the withering away of public goods	175
9	Cracking the foundational myths : independence, autonomy, and self-sufficiency	179
10	The politics of economics in welfare reform	193
11	Deterring "irresponsible" reproduction through welfare reform	225
12	Feminist economics : implications for education	261
Pt. IV	Feminism, economics, and labor	293
13	The new face of employment discrimination	297
14	Contingent labor : ideology in practice	324
15	Commodification and women's household labor	338
16	Is there agency in dependency? : expanding the feminist justifications for restructuring wage work	373
Pt. V	Economics and intimacy : gendered economic roles and the regulation of intimate relationships	401
17	What do women really want? : economics, justice, and the market for intimate relationships	405
18	Can families be efficient? : a feminist appraisal	423
19	Some concerns about applying economics to family law	450
20	The business of intimacy : bridging the private-private distinction	467