What is the price of a limb? A child? Ethnicity? Love? In a world that is often ruled by buyers and sellers, those things that are often considered priceless become objects to be marketed and from which to earn a profit. Ranging from black market babies to exploitative sex trade operations to the marketing of race and culture, Rethinking Commodification presents an interdisciplinary collection of writings, including legal theory, case law, and original essays to reexamine the traditional legal question: To commodify or not to commodify?
In this pathbreaking course reader,...
What is the price of a limb? A child? Ethnicity? Love? In a world that is often ruled by buyers and sellers, those things that are often considered...
What is the price of a limb? A child? Ethnicity? Love? In a world that is often ruled by buyers and sellers, those things that are often considered priceless become objects to be marketed and from which to earn a profit. Ranging from black market babies to exploitative sex trade operations to the marketing of race and culture, Rethinking Commodification presents an interdisciplinary collection of writings, including legal theory, case law, and original essays to reexamine the traditional legal question: ?To commodify or not to commodify?-
In this pathbreaking course...
What is the price of a limb? A child? Ethnicity? Love? In a world that is often ruled by buyers and sellers, those things that are often considered...
The United States has the most family-hostile public policy in the developed world. Despite what is often reported, new mothers don't "opt out" of work. They are pushed out by discriminating and inflexible workplaces. Today's workplaces continue to idealize the worker who has someone other than parents caring for their children.
Conventional wisdom attributes women's decision to leave work to their maternal traits and desires. In this thought-provoking book, Joan Williams shows why that view is misguided and how workplace practice disadvantages men--both those who seek to...
The United States has the most family-hostile public policy in the developed world. Despite what is often reported, new mothers don't "opt out" of ...
Joan C. Williams Rachel Dempsey Anne-Marie Slaughter
"Clearly and vividly detail s] the double standards and the dead ends that so many women face in the workplace." - Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In "If you're a working woman searching for the best pocket guide to success at work, here it is." - Arlie Hochschild, author of The Outsourced Self and So How's the Family? and other essays "A must-read book for everyone committed to creating gender-fair workplaces." - Alice H. Eagly, author of Through the Labyrinth
"Clearly and vividly detail s] the double standards and the dead ends that so many women face in the workplace." - Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean...
Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite--journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--are on the outside looking in, left to argue over the reasons. In White Working Class, Joan C. Williams, described as having -something approaching rock star status- by the New York Times, explains why so much of the elite's analysis of the white working class is misguided, rooted in class cluelessness.
Williams explains that many people have conflated -working class- with -poor---but...
Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite--journalists,...
