Donna L. Dickenson is an American philosopher who specializes in medical ethics. She is Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of London, fellow of the Ethox and HeLEX Centres at the University of Oxford, and visiting fellow at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol.

"Donna Dickenson has chosen to focus upon the propertylessness and impaired agency that continue to mark the situation of a large number of women in Western societies and the lives of the overwhelming majority in the developing world. She advocates their case in a lucid and compelling argument and engages her readers' interest in such an effective way that her book must count as a major contribution to the study of women and gender across the boundaries of academic disciplines." Ursula Vogel, University of Manchester, Women's Philosophy Review

• Introduction. 1. Property, Particularism and Moral Persons.2. Origins, Narratives and Households.3. Contract, Marriage and Property in the Person.4. Property and Moral Self-Development.5. Labour, Alienation and Reproduction.6. Another Sort of Subject?.7. Reconstructing Property.Notes.Bibliography.Index.

Donna L. Dickenson is an American philosopher who specializes in medical ethics. She is Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of London, fellow of the Ethox and HeLEX Centres at the University of Oxford, and visiting fellow at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol.

"Donna Dickenson has chosen to focus upon the propertylessness and impaired agency that continue to mark the situation of a large number of women in Western societies and the lives of the overwhelming majority in the developing world. She advocates their case in a lucid and compelling argument and engages her readers' interest in such an effective way that her book must count as a major contribution to the study of women and gender across the boundaries of academic disciplines." Ursula Vogel, University of Manchester, Women's Philosophy Review

• Introduction. 1. Property, Particularism and Moral Persons.2. Origins, Narratives and Households.3. Contract, Marriage and Property in the Person.4. Property and Moral Self-Development.5. Labour, Alienation and Reproduction.6. Another Sort of Subject?.7. Reconstructing Property.Notes.Bibliography.Index.