Property, Women, and Politics: Subjects or Objects?

by Donna Dickenson

Although many feminist authors have pointed out the ways in which women have been property, they have been less successful in suggesting how women might become the subjects rather than the objects of property holding. Property, Women, and Politics draws on a series of historical and anthropological studies which include the property position of women in classical Greece, the Anglo-American doctrine of coverture, nineteenth-century prostitution, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081352458X
• ISBN13: 9780813524580
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"