Law, Selfhood and Feminist Philosophy : Monstrous Aberrations (Paperback)

Section 1 1. Introduction to Section 1: The Feminist Relational Ontology of Christine Battersby and Adriana Cavarero 2. Elizabethan ‘Spinning’ and Penelope’s Weaving: The Political, the Common Law and Stately Bodies 3. Untimely Voices: Rethinking the Political with Adriana Cavarero and Christine Battersby 4. Relational Ontologies: Adriana Cavarero and Christine Battersby Explored via Spinoza Section 2 5. Introduction to Section 2: Feminist Perspectives on the Social Contract 6. On Not Making Ourselves the Prey of Others: Jean Hampton's Feminist Contractarianism 7. Hobbes’ Frontispiece: Authorship, Subordination and Contract 8. Carole Pateman, the Sexual Contract, and Freedom Section 3 9. Introduction to Section 3: Law and Intersections 10. The Concept of Harm in Actions for Wrongful Birth: Nature and Pre-Modern Views of Women 11. Spinoza, Feminism and Privacy: Exploring an Immanent Ethics of Privacy 12. Readings of Warren and Brandeis’ "The Right to Privacy": Gendered and Raced Bodies