Vulnerability : reflections on a new ethical foundation for law and politics /

Martha Albertson Fineman's earlier work developed a theory of inevitable and derivative dependencies as a way of problematizing the core assumptions underlying the 'autonomous' subject of liberal law and politics in the context of US equality discourse. Her 'vulnerability thesis&...

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Other Authors: Fineman, Martha, Grear, Anna, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
Series:Gender in law, culture, and society
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Vulnerability as heuristic : an invitation to future exploration / Martha Albertson Fineman and Anna Grear
  • Equality, autonomy, and the vulnerable subject in law and politics / Martha Albertson Fineman
  • Kierkegaard and vulnerability / Alison Assiter
  • Vulnerability, advanced global capitalism and co-symptomatic injustice : locating the vulnerable subject / Anna Grear
  • Vulnerability and the liberal order / Sean Coyle
  • More than utopia / Morgan Cloud
  • After the storm : the vulnerability and resilience of locally owned business / Susan S. Kuo and Benjamin Means
  • Housing the vulnerable subject : the English context / Helen Carr
  • Assisted reproductive technology provision and the vulnerability thesis : from the UK to the global market / Rachel Anne Fenton
  • A quiet revolution : vulnerability in the European Court of Human Rights / Alexandra Timmer
  • Animals as vulnerable subjects : beyond interest-convergence, hierarchy, and property / Ani B. Satz