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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>Prof Anne
Philips of the LSE is lecturing tomorrow evening on whether women should be paid
for donating eggs to others for IVF treatment.<SPAN
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(no2eggsploitation.wordpress.com), which is campaigning against plans to
increase payment, is planning to hold an informal meeting/social after the
lecture. All are welcome.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial>'It's my body and I'll do what I Like with it' Bodies as possessions
and <BR>objects<BR><BR>Anne Phillips, Professor of Gender and Political Theory,
LSE<BR><BR>A Gender Institute and Department of Government Public
Lecture<BR><BR>* Wednesday 29 September, 2010<BR>* 6.30pm<BR>* Old Theatre, Old
Building, LSE<BR>* Chair: Professor Emily Jackson, Department of Law, LSE<BR>*
Open to all - no booking required. Followed by an informal drinks <BR>reception
at the Gender Institute, 5th Floor, Columbia House.<BR><BR>Click here for more
details: <BR></FONT><A
href="http://www2.lse.ac.uk/genderInstitute/events/eventsProfiles/bodiesAsPossessions.aspx"><FONT
face=Arial>http://www2.lse.ac.uk/genderInstitute/events/eventsProfiles/bodiesAsPossessions.aspx</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
face=Arial>Abstract<BR>We commonly use the language of body ownership as a way
of claiming personal <BR>rights, though we do not normally mean it literally.
Most people feel uneasy <BR>about markets in sexual or reproductive services,
and though there is a <BR>substantial global trade in body tissues, the illicit
trade in live human <BR>organs is widely condemned. But what, if any, is the
problem with treating <BR>bodies as resources and/or possessions? Is there
something about the body <BR>that makes it particularly inappropriate to apply
to it the language of <BR>property, commodities, and things? Or is thinking the
body special a kind of <BR>sentimentalism that blocks clear thinking about
matters such as <BR>prostitution, surrogate motherhood, or the sale of spare
kidneys?<BR><BR>The related question is whether there is something about
feminism that makes <BR>it particularly resistant to the body as property. The
critique of <BR>objectification suggests there is, but there is also an
influential strand <BR>that defends the commodification of sexual and
reproductive services and <BR>queries the idea of the body as special. In this
lecture, Anne Phillips <BR>defends the idea that the body is special, but argues
that debates about <BR>body ownership are best understood as debates about
market relations, not <BR>simply claims about the body per se.<BR><BR>For
speaker biographies and a list of all forthcoming Gender Institute <BR>events,
visit <BR></FONT><A
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