Back Over the Sexual Contract
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democracy
Democratic Constitutionalism
early modern philosophy
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feminism
Feminist Critique
feminist philosophy
feminist political theory
feminist theory
Gender Studies
history of ideas
history of philosophy
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Locke
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Motherhood
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Patriarchy
political philosophy
political theory
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Sexual Contract
Social Contract
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Sovereign Power
the family
the state
Thomas Hobbes
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- ISBN 9781793638717
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 160 x 238mm
- Publication Date: 27 Dec 2021
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Is patriarchy an illness of democratic societies or a structural problem? To answer this dilemma, Back Over the Sexual Contract: A Hegelian Critique of Patriarchy examines the dilemma of patriarchy in modern European political theory by reopening the question of the "sexual contract." Through a study of the thought of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Immanuel Kant, Lorenzo Rustighi argues that the conceptual roots of male patriarchal entitlement should be sought in the logic of authorized power that underpins the modern understanding of both the state and the family. Challenging the mainstream distinction between the private and the public, Rustighi provocatively suggests that patriarchy is not something that undermines democracy as an alien threat, but is rather inscribed in the intrinsically anti-democratic effects of the concept of democracy construed by the modern rationale of the social contract. He puts forward a Hegelian argument to propose an unconventional constitutional approach to feminist political theory that helps us rethink democracy beyond its inherent impasses.
Lorenzo Rustighi is researcher in political philosophy at the University of Padova.
