The panelists will engage in a roundtable discussion about the formation of legal, political, and economic units, social reproduction, and the state. What forms of autonomy (or interdependence) are required for true freedom or democracy? What structural barriers constrain solidarity among women (and other people) along lines of class, race, sexuality, ability, religion, age, and region? What do movements for suffrage, paid labor in the home, and the socialization of care work, for instance, demonstrate about the U.S. constitution and political economy’s resistance to change? What do recent efforts by corporations and states to recognize alternative family models and a spectrum of social dependency say about the future? Please join us as we explore these questions and more.
Panelists:
Swethaa Ballakrishnen (UC Irvine School of Law)
Deborah Dinner (Emory University School of Law)
Amanda Shanor (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)
Reva Siegel (Yale Law School)