Книга: Donna Dickenson «Property, Women and Politics: Subjects or Objects»
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Производитель: "Polity" 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: Subjects or Objects` considers the relationship between women and property from a novel viewpoint, synthesizing political theory from liberal and non liberal traditions, feminist critiques, history and social policy. The volume ranges across 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 structural adjustment programmes in sub Saharan Africa. It includes a comprehensive critique of the treatment of property by both mainstream political theorists and such important second wave feminists as Irigaray, MacKinnon and Pateman. `Property, Women and Politics` deconstructs and contests the concept... ISBN:9780745613215 Издательство: "Polity" (1997)
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Donna Dickenson
| Donna Dickenson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 |
| Residence | Oxfordshire, England |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | Wellesley College, London School of Economics |
| Occupation | Philosopher |
| Spouse | Christopher Britton |
| Children | Son and daughter, Anders and Pip Lustgarten[1] |
| Awards | International Spinoza Lens prize, 2006. |
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| Donna Dickenson | |
Donna L. Dickenson (born 1946, New England) is an American philosopher who specializes in medical ethics. She is a fellow of the Ethox Centre in Oxford, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of London, and honorary senior research fellow at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine at the University of Bristol.[2]
She has written over 20 books on the subject, including Moral Luck in Medical Ethics and Practical Politics (1991), Risk and Luck in Medical Ethics (2003), Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives (2005), and Body Shopping: Converting Body Parts to Profit (2009). She is also the co-author of The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook (2001).[3]
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Education
Dickenson obtained her B.A. in political science from Wellesley College, Boston, and an M.Sc. in international relations from the London School of Economics.[4] She returned to the U.S. to work as a research assistant at Yale University, and spent a year working for the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City. In or around 1975, she took up a post at the Open University in the UK, and obtained her doctorate in philosophy with a study on moral luck in ethics and politics.[3] She worked as a lecturer at the Open University for 22 years.[4]
Career
In 1997, she moved to Imperial College, London as Leverhulme Reader in Medical Ethics and Law, and in 2001 to the University of Birmingham as John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics. In 2005, she became Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London, where she directed the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. She also directed four international research projects for the European Commission, including the Network for European Women's Rights.[citation needed]
In 2006, she became the first woman to receive the International Spinoza Lens prize, a bi-annual prize in ethics awarded in the Netherlands.[5]
See also
- American philosophy
- List of American philosophers
Notes
- ^ Dickenson, Donna (2009). Body Shopping, p. xiv.
- ^ Donna Dickenson, Helex, accessed January 24, 2010.
- ^ a b Academic, Donnadickenson.net, accessed January 24, 2010.
- ^ a b Donna Dickenson, Spinozalens, accessed January 25, 1010.
- ^ Donna Dickenson is the first woman to receive prestigious Spinoza Lens award ..., Birkbeck College, London, accessed January 24, 2010.
External links
- American writers
- American philosophers
- Medical ethicists
- 1946 births
- Living people
- Academics of Imperial College London
- Academics of the University of Birmingham
- Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
- Academics of the Open University
- American legal scholars
- Global ethics
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