POLS 2150 Chapter 3: Week 3 Reading
24 Feb 2016
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Krouse, richard w. (1982) patriarchal liberalism and beyond. Liberal rejecion of classical tradiion: purpose of naturally free and equal individuals replacing purposes of the will of. God: protecion of life, liberty and property, categories of women and natural slave should by logic of liberal consent theory now have equal civil and poliical ciizenship. Marxian criique of classical liberalism incoherent vision that commits to pracices that undermine its own core values of liberal freedom/equality. Marxian analogy extended from class to sex developed by engels in his origins of the. Freedom to own property and form contracts undermined by asymmetrical distribuion of bargaining power between classes class that owns means of producion has monopoly and subordinate class can only choose between work and poverty. Atempted resoluion of these inconsistencies in the liberal feminism of john stuart mill. Agues that women need emancipaion of legal subordinaion. Emancipaion requires at minimum equal female voter rights and civil rights.
