“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
“The ‘family’, in the sense in which the term is used today, emerged only after a long process of historical development. The… — 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
“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… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“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
