Sexual Contract

Question 1

Key beliefs:

Answer 1

• Far from being opposed to patriarchy, it is the means through which thrives
• displaced onto the marriage contract in classical texts (p.4) - > therefore it is politicized
  
  • women are not part of the original social contract as free individuals, but are incorporated into a private sphere, which is part of civil society, also separate from it

Question 2

Paceman deems that sexual difference =

Answer 2

Political difference

Question 3

What does this mean?

Answer 3

-conjugal domination
* marriage contract = exploitative + subjugation

Question 4

Exploitation

Answer 4

Treating one unfairly in order to benefit from it

Question 5

Subjugation

Answer 5

• the action of bringing someone or something under domination or control

Question 6

Where does power differ in the eyes of Pateman

Answer 6

Between the poser and the signer of the contract
Poser: men
signer:all

Question 7

Quote: “let’s not overlook the extent to which institutions held to be constituted by free relationships resemble to that if master and slave relations” (p.9)

Answer 7

This quote is arguing the idea that that the marriage contract is exploitation and subjugation.
Ex:no freedom