PHIL 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jeremy Waldron, Martha Minow, Distributive Justice
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Ch1 martha minow and mary lyndon on feminism. Rights to negotiate or alter terms of marriage, divorce. Equality of opportunity for employment, education, public service: the family as a contractual relationship. Forming of a family is a voluntary association between people. Each individual has a equal veto or say to the agreements in a family. Agreements in contracts can be negotiated and structured by the both genders in a marriage: advantages: Provide individuals a kind of veto over what commitments they may be held to perform. Allow individuals to select others with whom to interact, and to structure their agreements: disadvantages: Negotiation advantage; contracts made in conditions of unequal power are liable to encode such inequalities in agreements backed by the state. For this reason, contracts can be involuntary and inegalitarian relationships. Tends to assume rugged individual freedom, and fails to accommodate facts of human dependency (12): community based theories, advantages.
