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Question 1

the sexual contract

Answer 1

Pateman interprets Hobbes ‘social contract’ which she says is built on a pre-existing sexual contract (which is validated by the marriage contract) that places women as inferior to men. Women are equal in the state of nature but give up their power for protection when pregnant/ from rape (coercive contracts are valid threat of rape). Social contract can’t simply be expanded to include women it is fundamentally constructed around their exclusion.

Question 2

Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 2

“i do not want women to have power over men but over themselves” but she claimed that women’s education should be focused on female roles and virtues (e.g. the home) whereas men’s education should be focused on business etc.

Question 3

Linda Zerilli

Answer 3

women are seen merely as appendages to citizen man and not as political beings in their own right

Question 4

Butler

Answer 4

unity of women is needed to address the denigration of female identity

Question 5

3rd wave feminism

Answer 5

• less emphasis on unity
• liberated women from limitations of the sex-gender distinction - allowed them to be sexual beings
• focus on cultural and social differences between women in different circumstances internationally

Question 6

Susan Okin

Answer 6

multiculturalism is bad for feminism - group rights are potentially and in many cases antifeminist

Question 7

Gayatri Spivak

Answer 7

who has the right to speak for the oppressed and uneducated women of India e.g. widow immolation (suttees sacrifice themselves after their husbands die) - their experience can’t be represented by white privileged women.