Anne Phillips
Our Bodies, Whose Property?
- ISBN 13:
- 9780691150864
- author:
- Anne Phillips
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2013
- Pages:
- 264
- Dimensions:
- 14.73 x 2.03 x 22.86 centimetres
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Women's Studies,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Our Bodies, Whose Property? challenges the notion that our bodies can be treated as commodities. This thought-provoking analysis explores the risks associated with metaphors of property and the reasons why the commodification of bodily services and parts remains problematic. Drawing on analyses of rape, surrogacy, and markets in human organs, Anne Phillips examines the implications of treating our bodies as property. She considers how this perspective affects equality and highlights the importance of recognizing shared vulnerability as embodied beings in the same world. By exploring the complex issue of body exceptionalism, Phillips demonstrates that treating the body as property makes human equality harder to comprehend. This insightful book offers a nuanced understanding of the intersections between law, business, philosophy, and politics.
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