| Title | : | Just Life: Bioethics and the Future of Sexual Difference |
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| ISBN | : | 0231171749 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780231171748 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 |
| Publication | : | First published March 8, 2016 |
Just Life reorients ethics and politics around the generativity of mothers and daughters rather than the right to property and the sexual proprieties of the oedipal drama. Invoking two concrete universals―everyone is born of a woman and everyone needs to eat―Rawlinson rethinks labor and food as relationships that make ethical claims and sustain agency. Just Life counters the capitalization of bodies under biopower with the solidarity of sovereign bodies.
Just Life: Bioethics and the Future of Sexual Difference Reviews
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Enjoyed the book. Think her critique of traditional ethical philosophy based on the central role of the male in society is pretty sound. Also her critique of globalization writ large is sound. I'm certainly sympathetic to her plea for a more fair and just world for women, and agree that ethical philosophy needs to include woman's unique generative role in the world. Lots of ideas and proposals to chew over. And the writing is pretty accessible for an academic work. In the end I can't share her optimism that treating women better will straighten out this planet that we have messed up fundamentally by overpopulating it with humans.
