PAP 3325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bargaining, Surrogacy, Disability Insurance

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 3325
• Professor: Ishara Mahat

Document Summary

Radical: reject the traditional roles of women; prescribed. State-norms minimal to follow by the partners in contract. Assumption of equal power relations (one may have. Marriage and divorce law set contractual obligations for the gender roles parties less bargaining power than another) Do not adequately describe the nature of familial relationship especially the importance of communities in forming the ties. Hold a negative view of the state (state law regarding families) Denies public interest (e. g. if state should enforce child: rights-based theories support responsibilities) State intervention to protect the rights of vulnerable individuals within families, State responsibilities to individual rights as a basis of familial relations. Family and marriage institution as a pivot of societal system of gender. Women subject of exploitation at home and work. Ending the gender division of labor (equal sharing of work) State intervention to establish the power balance. Critiques: hard balance between rights and responsibilities (e. g. joint custody arrangements)