Chix nix bundle-o-stix: a feminist critique of the disaggregation of property.

From: Michigan Law Review | Date: November 1, 1994| Author: Schroeder, Jeanne L. | Copyright information

The characterization of property as abstract rights or as tangible things both understate the nature of property and the relationship between legal subjects and fail to consider the psychoanalytic implications of the "bundle of sticks" paradigm. Both schools of thought are fixated with the physicality of property, with one school doing so in the affirmative and the other in the negative. The focus on physicality relates to the Phallus and the ability to attain subjectivity based on the contro...

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