Sexual Contract

Name: Sexual Contract
Price: 8.15 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780804714778

ISBN-10: 0804714770

ISBN-13: 9780804714778

Edition: 1988

Authors: Carole Pateman

List price: $28.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $8.15

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

In this remarkably original work of political philosophy, one of today's foremost feminist theorist challenges the way contemporary society functions by questioning the standard interpretation of an idea that is deeply embedded in American and British political thought: that our rights and freedoms derive from the social contract explicated by Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau and interpreted in the United States by the Founding Fathers. The author shows how we are told only half the story of the original contract that establishes modern patriarchy. The sexual contract is ignored and thus men's patriarchal right over women is also glossed over. No attention is paid to the problems that arise when…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 8/1/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.98" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English