POLS10003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Carole Pateman, Frantz Fanon, John Stuart Mill
4 Aug 2018
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The question of canon, how female authors have been included or not. How thoughts of feminism have been ignored, why and how they have been silenced. De beauvoir talking about how women are othered, basic distinction between masculinity and femininity. Masculine rational and unemotional and feminine is the negative inverse of this idea the irrational, the emotional, not what you aspire to be. Carole pateman attacks locke"s version of the social contract. She argued for a sexual contract between men and women, each woman becomes dependant on a man to enter the state, women in private realm. Exclusion from citizenship, denial of social rights, how issues of race have been ignored, how authors from non western backgrounds have been silenced in political thought, Charles mills offers a systemic form of modern white supremacy. Relationship of domination between european and non european peoples.
