摘要:This paper examines the sexual contract in the 21st century. The analysis first focuses onthe transformation in modernity from the liberal to the neoliberal social contract. This isthen compared to the changes in the private spheres of home and domesticity. It is arguedthat the new gender composition of Western homes that consist of female migrant labour,contests the idea of the sexual contract as institutionalised in modernity. The work of CarolePateman is taken as a starting point, while some new artistic interventions, as well astransnational motherhood and sham marriages, are used to inspect the future of the socialcontract in the 21st century.