Feminist Politics and Feminist Pluralism: Can We Do Feminist Political Theory Without Theories of Gender?

Liberal Daddy Quotas: Why Men Should Take Care of the Children, and How Liberals Can Get Them to Do It

“…For example, Sharon Lloyd argues that it is a publicly recognized good to reproduce society from one generation to the next, which requires that the burdens associated with producing this good be more equitably shared across the populace (Lloyd ). Amy Baehr argues that a distribution of social goods derived from an assumption that contractors have an interest in ensuring that the needs of their dependents are met would also support social expenditure on child care and paid parental leave: “the determination of what goods count as basic, and the distribution of such basic goods, [would] not favor non‐dependency workers over those engaged in dependency work” (Baehr , 425). In what follows, I will assume that liberalism supports the more ambitious program, as typically argued by most liberal feminists.…”

“…There is no doubt that core liberal arguments have been convincingly deployed by feminists to undermine some of the central causes of women's inequality, specifically the more iniquitous aspects of the gendered division of labor. Baehr suggests that although liberals cannot ensure that men and women choose an equal division of labor, they can ensure that the choice to prioritize care over work will be costless (Baehr , 433).…”

“…3. Amy Baehr provides the best discussion of the various forms of contemporary liberal feminism (Baehr 2007).…”

“…Many contemporary liberals (although not all) have defended neutrality, either at the level of justifying a conception of justice, or at the level of state decision‐making. Justificatory neutrality argues that a conception of justice must be justified politically, according to values that all reasonable people can accept, perhaps by being based on ideas implicit in the public political culture, or by being capable of some type of contractual agreement (Rawls ; Lloyd ; Baehr ). State neutrality does not demand that the principles of justice themselves be subject to such justification.…”

Arranged Marriage: Could It Contribute To Justice?

“… For varied defenses of this claim, see vulnerability theorists (Goodin ; Mackenzie, Rogers, and Dodds ), care ethicists (Kittay ; Tronto , ; Held ; Engster ; Collins ), and feminist liberals (Baehr ; Bhandary ; Brake ; Hartley and Watson ; Nussbaum ; Robeyns ; Stark ; Varden ).…”