 An ongoing theme in all these debates about marriage, reproduction, and the body has been the extent to which these issues should be understood in terms of protecting liberty, and how much they should be understood in terms of achieving equality. For liberal feminists, the extent to which women may exercise uncoerced choice over their bodies and their private lives is key. If women choose marriages in which they are dependent economically, make choices about how many children they will have, and elect to spend their lives in uncompensated domestic labor, those decisions should be respected as long as they are not coerced. For other feminists, what is critical is the extent to which even apparently free choices are exercised against a backdrop of economic inequality or patriarchal dominance. For these feminists, economic dependency and norms of dominance call into question the possibility of genuinely free choice.