Tag: proto-feminist

Hobbes as opposed to the other contractarians, assumes that there is no natural mastery of male over female. Hobbes also argues that the original political right comes from the right of the mother over the child. Political rights is originally maternal and not paternal. Why isn’t this original right paternal? How is this over turned?

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Pateman: Sexual Contract Part I: Read: Carol Pateman: Chapter 3 “Contract, the Individual and Slavery” from The Sexual Contract(only pages 39-60) […]