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The Sexual Contract

Carole Pateman · 1988

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Wiley's publisher record for the 1988 Polity edition of The Sexual Contract.

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  • The selected evidence supports British-imperial and gender critiques but does not establish comparable claims about racial and class exclusion or supply accounts by excluded people.

    • context · publisher synopsis, paragraph 1

  • Pateman argues that canonical contract theories hide a gendered settlement in which civil freedom for men depends on women's subordination.

    • supports · publisher synopsis, paragraph 1