Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture

by Joan C. Williams, Martha M. Ertmann, Martha M. Ertman

Book Overview

What is the price of a limb? A child? Ethnicity? Love? In a world that is often ruled by buyers and sellers, those things that are often considered priceless become objects to be marketed and from which to earn a profit. Ranging from black market babies to exploitative sex trade operations to the marketing of race and culture, Rethinking Commodification presents an interdisciplinary collection of writings, including legal theory, case law,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814722296
• ISBN13: 9780814722299
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"