| Description |
xxxiii, 379 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-371) and index. |
| Contents |
The eye of the needle : Liberation ; Damnation ; Patriarchal feudalism ; The growth of markets ; Patriarchal ideology ; Markets and mentalités ; Regulation -- The springs of desire : The commonwealth of fathers ; Patriarchy defended ; Patriarchy modified ; A supremacy to themselves ; (Re)production ; Sexual efficiency ; Contractual power -- Defining virtues : The ancient regime ; Age and gender, love and sex ; The rebellion of the harem ; The climate of reason ; Self, love, God, and nature ; Commerce and virtue ; Human nature -- Free trade but not free love. Humanism ; Selfishness celebrated ; Sexual regulation ; Love thyself ; The butcher, the baker, and the wife ; The balance -- The limits of affection : Sweet commerce ; The fraternal compromise ; Slavery and evil ; Feminism and abolition ; Observers from abroad ; Democracy in America -- The perfectability of man : Progress? ; Of bread and cake ; Interests and the revolution ; Malevolence theorized ; Timid egoism -- The greatest happiness : Chivalry versus calculation ; The vindication ; Godwin's enquiry ; The greatest good ; Gendered virtues - Self-love, triumphant : Poor relief ; The essay on population ; Against benevolence ; The improper arts ; Malthus and women ; Enlightenment redux -- Production and reproduction : Patriarchal capitalism ; The rise of individual occupations ; The labor theory of value ; Child labor and the poor laws ; Fertility and out-of-wedlock births ; The wages of virtue ; Family disruptions -- Whose wealth? : Wealth demoralized ; The limits to growth ; Collective interests ; The corn laws ; Free trade ; Protectionism ; Selfish classes -- The social family : The social father ; The great dream ; Class and gender ; Owen's economics ; The appeal of one-half the human race ; Feminist socialism ; Utopian and scientific -- Equal opportunities : Napoleonic code ; Secular humanism ; The sexual radicals ; Le tribune des femmes ; The calculus of harmony ; The sexual welfare state ; Brook Farm ; Crazy attempts -- The subjection of women : The partnership ; The subjection of women ; Political activism ; A fundamental question -- Declaring independence : Peculiar institutions ; Equality and difference ; Collective interests ; The economic significance of family work ; Divorce and reproductive rights ; Balancing acts -- The icy waters : Revolutions ; Scientific self-interest ; The holy family ; The response to Bebel ; Bebel and social democracy ; The survival of the altruistic ; The free development of all -- The sacred sphere : Domestic advice ; The meaning of motherhood ; Neoclassical altruism ; Women's duties ; Virtue and consequences -- The unproductive housewife : Counting workers ; The U.S. and Massachusetts censuses ; A double bind ; Home economics and household production ; National income and the value of labor services ; The meaning of the adjectives -- The nanny state : Fear of fertility decline ; The family wage ; The Fabians ; The endowment of motherhood ; Minimum wages for women in the U.S. ; Birth control ; Sleeping Beauty awakes ; The glorious unfolding ; Public support and reproductive rights -- Human capitalism : Social welfare ; The opposite reaction ; Everyone a capitalist ; Capitalizing humans ; The altruistic family ; Families, gender inequality, and the state ; The third realm -- Beyond economic man : The waves ; Feminist economics ; Motivations ; Markets and non-markets ; The costs of care ; Gender norms ; Fairness, reciprocity, and care ; Gross national happiness ; Rational and caring people. |
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Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Men -- Economic conditions.
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Women -- Economic conditions.
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Avarice -- Sex differences.
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Lust -- Sex differences.
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| Added Title |
Greed, lust and gender |
| ISBN |
9780199238422 alkaline paper |
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0199238421 alkaline paper |
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