Property, Women, and Politics deconstructs and contests the concept of property. It also uses important insights in recent feminist thought to suggest productive directions for a reconstructed theory of property, one in which women's work counts. The reconstructed model is applied to such pressing areas of medical ethics as egg and sperm donation, contract motherhood, abortion, and the sale of fetal tissue. It also shows how we can radically revise our assumptions about the "marriage contract."

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Property, Particularism and Moral Persons
Munzer: a propertyless world?
Property, women and theory
Virtue, property and agency

2. Origins, Narratives and Households
Property and narrative
Aristotle: 'Nature has distinguished between the female and the slave'
Wives, mistresses, slaves and prostitutes: women in Greek property law 

3. Contract, Marriage and Property in the Person
Contract, sexual and social: Locke and Pateman
Women, property and marriage: the legal background to contractarian liberalism

4. Property and Moral Self-Development
Hegel: 'Everyone must have property'
The marriage 'contract': a shameful idea?
Poverty and prostitution: Flora Tristan

5. Labour, Alienation and Reproduction
Labour and alienation: Marx and MacKinnon
Delphy and the domestic mode of production
Dependency and the domestic mode of production: the case of sub-Saharan Africa

6. Another Sort of Subject?
Butler and Irigaray: disjointed subjectivity 
Rationality and its discontents

7. Reconstructing Property
Case study 1: Gamete donation and sale
Case study 2: Contract motherhood
Case study 3: Abortion and the sale of fetal tissue
Case study 4: The marriage 'contract'
A brief conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index