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This 5 page paper examines social contract theory from a specifically feminist perspective. This paper relies upon the theories of such notable theorists as Carol Pateman, Judith Butler and Michel Foucault. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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the student is asked to refer to http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPSA_PC.html, which definitively supports all APSA citations used in this paper.** Social
contracts are a fundamental building block of society, regulating the ways that individuals engage one another. Gendered perceptions have driven many of these contracts, often outside of the awareness
of the individuals involved. In this way, many modern feminists have taken issue with the traditional manifestation of social contracts and the way they affect womens rights and freedoms.
For instance, Carol Pateman discusses this concept in The Sexual Contract, by illustrating her belief that women have always been left
out of any notion of an "original" contract, and thus have been removed inherently from the power and position that men hold in society. Clearly, this has led to
a plethora of consequences for women in regards to their rights and freedoms. For instance, Pateman outlines in, The Sexual Contract, how the institution of marriage has evolved as
a social contract that allows men free access to women and their bodies. An explanation for the binding authority of the state and civil law, and for
the legitimacy of modern civil government is to be found by treating our society as if it had originated in a contract. The attraction of the idea of an
original contract and of contract theory in a more general sense, a theory that claims that free social relations take a contractual form, is probably greater now than at any
time since the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when the classic writers told their tales" (Pateman, 1988, p. 1). There have
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