Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781107160774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 222 str.

Donna Dickenson

Opis

Commodification of the human body is gaining ground, strengthened by powerful interests. This book helps us understand and regulate it.

Recenzje

'Any new work from the eminent British scholar Donna Dickenson promises to bring important insights. This second edition of her important 2007 volume on the commodification of women's bodies, Property in the Body, is no exception.' Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times

Spis treści

1. Do we all have feminised bodies now?; 2. Commodification, contract and labour; 3. The lady vanishes: eggs for reproduction and research; 4. Surrogacy: can babies be property?; 5. Umbilical cord blood: seizing surplus value; 6. Biobanks and databases: our bodies, but not ourselves; 7. The gender politics of genetic patenting; 8. Reclaiming the biomedical commons.