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The Sexual Contract

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  • In Carole Pateman

    In her most famous work, The Sexual Contract (1988), Pateman challenged the liberal idea that the power of the state does not contradict the freedom of individuals because it is founded upon their consent. Social-contract theorists like Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau rejected the notion that political authority could be obtained…

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