Carole Pateman And The Social Contract
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Carole Pateman tries to prove that the social contract is sexist. Pateman does this by analyzing the social contract as an underlying sexual contract and questioning what it is to be a woman. She argues that sexual difference is just political difference. Social contracts were made to promote freedom, yet as Pateman explained, freedom is constructed around men while women are subjected. As if to say that laws are made to support and empower males. Marriage laws affected sexual relations in the way that women were thought to be male property once they were legally married. It wasn’t until the late 1970’s that men started to get prosecuted for what later became known as marital rape. By highlighting the two spheres theory, Pateman, essentially