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The Family: Gender and Childrearing

Course

Description

https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/POLS5195?type=CORE

Aim & Background

This course introduces students to the main philosophical challenges surrounding the existence of the family: Is it a justified institution, and why? How does it disrupt gender justice, as well as, more generally, distributive justice amongst children and adults? What are the objections to the gendered division of labour within the family? Is procreation permissible, and, if so, what are the duties of procreators? What are the normative issues raised by the fact that we all start life as children? How can the family be reformed in order to minimise disruptions to justice?
Course period5/01/265/04/26