Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus

by Fineman, Martha Albertson; DOUGHERTY, TERENCE

• ISBN13: 9780801489419
• ISBN10: 0801489415
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-28
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Table of Contents

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