There is free thought, free choice, the free world - and then there is free stuff. By tracking the transformations of just one idea, "free," this book describes an arc of thought through a "revaluation of values" and offers its critique in the same gesture.

Robyn Ferrell is adjunct professor at the Centre for Law, Art and Humanities at the Australian National University, and in Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney.

Contents

[list of photographs]

[acknowledgments]

[preface]

[introduction]... free form

market values

[one] ... free gift

[two] ... free time

[three] ... free market

[four] ... free speech

[five] ... free world

technological thinking

[six] ... free choice

[seven] ... free love

[eight] ... free thought

[afterword]