ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a methodology for analysing the equitable allocation of rights in the home. This model is predicated on the notion that in the late modern world individual human beings have come to demand recognition of their rights as individuals.This process is referred to here as individualisation and is modelled on the work of Ulrich Beck and Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim. 1 The theory of individualisation which emerges is positive about the effects of a renewed focus on the rights and the status of the individual for democratic politics in general and for the rights of women in particular. By contrast, as will emerge, there are competing theories of late modernism which consider individualisation to promote a social atomisation with a deleterious effect on our social life. 2
