Carole Pateman by Benjamin Stumpf https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5 en-us 2022-10-03 15:23:34 UTC 2025-11-02 03:06:49 UTC hello@padlet.com benjaminstumpf https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324012103 The social contract is said to free us from the state of nature and into a free and equal political society. But what kinds of relationships are ongoing but the social contract denies they exist? Are they equal or unequal? Free or unfree? What is the “original contract” and what kinds of relationships does it create? Who wrote it and who is effected by it?]]> 2022-10-03 15:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324012103 Dr. Carole Pateman! benjaminstumpf https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324034226 2022-10-03 15:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324034226 https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324040894 Pateman critiques the fact that the social contract seems to only apply to men and not to women, a structure that she describes as patriarchal. She believes that the social contract was written by men without much consideration as to how women would be affected. When women are not included in the social contract, the natural result is that men will treat women as property and rule over them.]]> 2022-10-03 15:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324040894 "With the exception of Hobbes, the classic theorists claim that women naturally lack the attributes and capacities of ‘individuals’." This quote shows that Dr. Carole Pateman believes that Locke left out women when talking about the social contract. https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324044188 2022-10-03 15:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324044188 Social contract https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324045484 - The patriarchy uses the sexual contract to have power over women 
- Even in patriarchal relationships, the contract affects us privately and publicly
- The social contract really only applies to men, not women
- Women are seen and treated as objects in society]]> 2022-10-03 15:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324045484 https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324048665 -Civil freedoms=not universal
- Patriarchal system-men created institutions to assert dominance over women
-Social contract=Story of "freedom"
-Sexual contract=Story of subjection
-Women are subjected to the "western male" viewpoint]]> 2022-10-03 15:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324048665 https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324049645 "The original contract is a sexual-social pact, but the story of the sexual contract has been repressed."
"The missing half of the story tells how a specifically modern form of patriarchy is
established. The new civil society created through the original contract is a patriarchal social order."
Essentially, the contract only applies to men and does not guarantee women freedom and equality. Since they are left out in the contract, they are treated as property, not people.]]> 2022-10-03 15:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324049645 “Modern civil society is not structured by kipship and the power of fathers; in the modern world, women are subordinated to men as men, or to men as a fraternity. The original contract takes place after the political defeat of the father and creates modern fraternal patriarchy” (Pateman, 3). https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324059342 2022-10-03 15:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324059342 https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324059474  "Civil freedom is a masculine attribute and depends upon patriarchal right. The sons overturn paternal rule not merely to gain their liberty but to secure women for themselves. | Their success in this endeavor is chronicled in the story of the sexual contract. The original pact is a sexual as well as a social contract: it is sexual in the sense of patriarchal - that is, the contract establishes men’s political right over women - and also sexual in the sense of establishing orderly access by men to women’s bodies. " Pateman is arguing that the need from of the sexual contract stems from the inequities created between men and women in the social contract. Pateman proposes the sexual contract as a way to rectify these inequities and create a society where power is shared between men and women.]]> 2022-10-03 15:48:12 UTC https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324059474 https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324073069 Pateman focuses heavily on the social contracts that are within society, especially the ones that are described by her as unequal distributions in power. The main theme is about the difference in power between men and women. "Men’s domination over women, and the right of men to enjoy equal sexual access to women, is at issue in the making of the original pact. The social contract is a story of freedom; the sexual contract is a story of subjection." This quote describes one of the main points of the Sexual contract, where Pateman uses as an example of a prominent difference in power]]> 2022-10-03 15:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/benjaminstumpf/uy1r84jzf6jvzja5/wish/2324073069