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“... of male individuals (persons, workers). This rereading of standard texts is done impressively in Pateman’s discussions of Locke and Hobbes, in Linda Nicholson’s discussion of Marx in Feminism as Critique, as well as in Susan Miller Okin’s recent discussion of John Rawls in Philosophy and Public Affairs. They leave us in no doubt that the ...”

“... do similar things for women but Hunt implicitly takes a stand against those authors (especially Carole Pateman and Joan Scott) who see a symbiotic relationship between the rise of equal rights for men and female subjugation, arguing that modern forms of individuation depend on radical sexual differentiation. What matters, Hunt argues, is not that the ...”

“... that, ‘Droits de la femme/Droits de la citoyenne’, begins with the liberal-feminist theorist Carole Pateman’s classic account of Hegel, ‘the social contract theorists’ greatest critic’, being perfectly happy with marriage as an institution that forces women to stay at home. The trouble with this, Rose thinks, is that ...”

“... Of the external discussions of liberal thought on the public and private the most revealing is Carole Pateman’s, which probes the accommodation of women’s subordination in liberal thought. It is surely more than an intellectual or historical oddity that so many advocates of the Rights of Man proved willing for so long to settle for the rights of ...”