“The sexual segregation of the labour force, and the preservation of workplaces as arenas for fraternal solidarity, have remained remarkably stable during… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“The domestic relations of master–slave and master-servant, relations between unequals, have given way to the relation between capitalist or employer and wage… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“Women are not party to the original contract through which men transform their natural freedom into the security of civil freedom. Women… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“Similarly, women collectively are coerced into marriage although any woman is free to remain single. William Thompson compared women’s freedom to decline… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“Under coverture, a wife was required to live where her husband demanded, her earnings belonged to her husband and her children were… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“A (house)wife now performs the tasks once distributed between servants of different rank or undertaken by the maid of all work. Her… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“In Hobbes’ state of nature, when a male individual conquers (contracts with) a female individual he becomes her sexual master and she becomes his servant. Rousseau’s conjectural history of the development of civil society tells how women must ‘tend the hut’, and in La Nouvelle Héloise Julie superintends the daily domestic business at Clarens. The story has been told again… — Carole Pateman Copy Share
“The sexual segregation of the labour force, and the preservation of workplaces as arenas for fraternal solidarity, have remained remarkably stable during the twentieth… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“The domestic relations of master–slave and master-servant, relations between unequals, have given way to the relation between capitalist or employer and wage labourer or… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is . .… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“The ‘family’, in the sense in which the term is used today, emerged only after a long process of historical development. The many figures… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“Women are not party to the original contract through which men transform their natural freedom into the security of civil freedom. Women are the… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“To win acknowledgment that women own the property in their persons thus seems to strike a decisive blow against patriarchy, but historically, while the… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“Similarly, women collectively are coerced into marriage although any woman is free to remain single. William Thompson compared women’s freedom to decline to marry… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“The original pact is a sexual as well as a social contract: it is sexual in the sense of patriarchal – that is, the… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“In Zilboorg’s interpretation of the primal scene, women become sexual and economic slaves in the family. The co-operative socialist William Thompson provided a similar… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“Under coverture, a wife was required to live where her husband demanded, her earnings belonged to her husband and her children were the property… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“A (house)wife now performs the tasks once distributed between servants of different rank or undertaken by the maid of all work. Her ‘core’ jobs… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
