The alt spills over to the system of property as a whole

However, one might also imagine feminist critics using the starting point of women as property to critique the notion of private property in favor of a less rigid understanding of ownership of tangible things. From this perspective, much as with copyright, it is possible for feminists to offer an underlying critique of the idea of private property that one day may transform a system of property that continues to work more in favor of men than of women.110

In an effort to examine private property through a feminist lens, one could argue that the seemingly “rational” world of property discourse is in effect a story where not all actors can be predicted to behave in the name of rational self-interest.111 Specifically, women as mothers will most likely not order moral choices about property in a manner that will only benefit themselves to the exclusion of others (the otherwise “rational” choice).112

Women’s interests in property can be viewed as seeking to avoid becoming the object of property and instead retaining the subjectivity to own property.113 This deontological position translates into the world of intellectual property. Subjectivity as a potential property owner must be acknowledged.114 It is the dehumanizing forces of turning people into objects that must be resisted. This is where a feminist critique can be made the most powerful. At a secondary level, a feminist lens allows us to rethink traditional property in less absolutist terms and again seek a middle path and/or a balance between rigid ownership and total lack of control.115 Feminist analysis of private property may not reject the notion of ownership, but it does seek to render that idea more complex, multiple and linked to the larger public domain.116 Feminist presses offer an example of the problems associated with feminist concepts of authorship and property.