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The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Sexual Contract about?
Carole Pateman is one of the foremost political theorists writing in English today. In this outstanding new work, she presents a major reinterpretation of modern political theory. She shows how standard discussions of social contract theory tell only half the story. The sexual contract which establishes modern patriarchy and the political right of men over women is never mentioned. In a wide-ranging and scholarly discussion, Pateman examines the significance of the political fictions of the orig
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Carole Pateman
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780745604329
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, Research
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (175 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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