Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus

by Fineman, Martha Albertson; DOUGHERTY, TERENCE

• ISBN13: 9780801443114
• ISBN10: 0801443113
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction: Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus	ix
Part I: Law and Economics and Neoclassical Economic Theory	1	(56)
1. Economic Rhetoric, Economic Individualism, and the Law and Economics School
Terence Dougherty	3	(17)
2. The Demoralization of Economics: Can We Recover from Bentham and Return to Smith?
Deirdre McCloskey	20	(12)
3. Separative and Soluble Selves: Dichotomous Thinking in Economics
Paula England	32	(25)
Part II: Feminism Confronts Neoclassical Economic Theory and Law and Economics	57	(118)
4. Playing with Fire: Feminist Legal Theorists and the Tools of Economics
Neil H. Buchanan	61	(33)
5. Feminism and Eutrophic Methodologies
Douglas A. Kysar	94	(23)
6. Private Property, the Private Subject, and Women: Can Women Truly Be Owners of Capital?
Elizabeth Mayes	117	(14)
7. Nest Eggs and Stormy Weather: Law, Culture, and Black Women's Lack of Wealth
Regina Austin	131	(16)
8. Deconstructing the State-Market Divide: The Rhetoric of Regulation from Workers' Compensation to the World Trade Organization
Martha T. McCluskey	147	(28)
Part III: The Costs of the Free Market: Theories of Collective Responsibility and the Withering Away of Public Goods	175	(118)
9. Cracking the Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, and Self-Sufficiency
Martha Albertson Fineman	179	(14)
10. The Politics of Economics in Welfare Reform
Martha T. McCluskey	193	(32)
11. Deterring "Irresponsible" Reproduction through Welfare Reform
Linda C. McClain	225	(36)
12. Feminist Economics: Implications for Education
Myra H. Strober	261	(32)
Part IV: Feminism, Economics, and Labor	293	(108)
13. The New Face of Employment Discrimination
Katherine V.W. Stone	297	(27)
14. Contingent Labor: Ideology in Practice
Risa L. Lieberwitz	324	(14)
15. Commodification and Women's Household Labor
Katharine B. Silbaugh	338	(35)
16. Is There Agency in Dependency? Expanding the Feminist Justifications for Restructuring Wage Work
Laura T. Kessler	373	(28)
Part V: Economics and Intimacy: Gendered Economic Roles and the Regulation of Intimate Relationships	401	(100)
17. What Do Women Really Want? Economics, Justice, and the Market for Intimate Relationships
June Carbone	405	(18)
18. Can Families Be Efficient? A Feminist Appraisal
Ann Laquer Estin	423	(27)
19. Some Concerns about Applying Economics to Family Law
Margaret E. Brinig	450	(17)
20. The Business of Intimacy: Bridging the Private-Private Distinction
Martha M. Ertman	467	(34)
Contributors	501	(2)
Index	503