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  • In this sense, the Moral Mother, the anti-war campaigner, could be cast as an accomplice of warmongers; the necessary alibi for war, evidence that society could at once wage war while preserving its soul within half of the population, was foundationally excluded from the new social contract (Pateman, 1988).

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • The great paradox of the Enlightenment, Pateman (1988: 8) has argued, was the promotion of the notion of a social contract founded on the principles of equality and the rights of individuals, but which was simultaneously defined by its exclusion of women.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • Thus although the wife has the right in principle to refuse sex on any occasion, her consent can be understood through silence and necessarily ambiguous signs (Pateman 1989, 76).

    Sex. 2009

  • I am especially indebted to Dr. Tony Jelliffe and to John Pateman, whose research and scholarship have been particularly relevant to this project.

    Her Fearful Symmetry AUDREY NIFFENEGGER 2009

  • From a more critical perspective, several feminist theorists have argued that some of the central categories of liberalism occlude women's lived concerns; for example, the central liberal private/public distinction sequesters the private sphere, and any harm that may occur there to women, away from political scrutiny (Pateman 1983).

    Feminist Political Philosophy McAfee, Noëlle 2009

  • Journal of the History of Religions 13/1 (1973): 165 – 208; Pateman, Carole.

    Sex. 2009

  • Jean Pateman, founder of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery, said: "To paraphrase Churchill, 'Some Mums, some army'."

    Beware of the Stroppy Silver-Haired Ladies 2006

  • As Carole Pateman argues, "the social contract is a story of freedom; the sexual contract is a story of subjection" (2).

    'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006

  • Like Lerner and Rubin, Pateman challenges the notion that prostitution results from men's biologically driven behavior, and instead explains prostitution as the incorporation of a particular conception of masculinity into modern political and social structures

    Feminist Perspectives on Sex Markets Shrage, Laurie 2007

  • Carol Pateman deploys the basic concepts of liberal political theory to explain the existence of prostitution in modern societies.

    Feminist Perspectives on Sex Markets Shrage, Laurie 2007

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