The Contract and Domination

Цена 76.82 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780745640037


Издатель Polity

Страниц 320

Год выпуска 2007

"Contract and Domination" offers a bold challenge to contemporary contract theory, arguing that it should either be fundamentally rethought or abandoned altogether. Since the publication of John Rawls"s A Theory of Justice, contract theory has once again become central to the Western political tradition. But gender justice is neglected and racial justice almost completely ignored. Carole Pateman and Charles Mills"s earlier books, "The Sexual Contract" (1988) and "The Racial Contract" (1997), offered devastating critiques of gender and racial domination and the contemporary contract tradition"s silence on them. Both books have become classics of revisionist radical democratic political theory. Now Pateman and Mills are collaborating for the first time in an interdisciplinary volume, drawing on their insights from political science and philosophy. They are building on but going beyond their earlier work to bring the sexual and racial contracts together. "In...