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The Contract and Domination

Pateman, Carole / Mills, Charles

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1. Auflage September 2007
320 Seiten, Softcover
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ISBN: 978-0-7456-4004-4
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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 Contract and Domination, Pateman and Mills discuss
their differences about contract theory and whether it has a useful
future, excavate the (white) settler contract that created new
civil societies in North America and Australia, argue via a
non-ideal contract for reparations to black Americans, confront the
evasions of contemporary contract theorists, explore the
intersections of gender and race and the global sexual-racial
contract, and reply to their critics.

This iconoclastic book throws the gauntlet down to mainstream
white male contract theory. It is vital reading for anyone with an
interest in political theory and political philosophy, and the
systems of male and racial domination.

Acknowledgments vi

Introduction 1
Carole Pateman and Charles W. Mills

1 Contract and Social Change 10
A Dialogue between Carole Pateman and Charles W. Mills

2 The Settler Contract 35
Carole Pateman

3 The Domination Contract 79
Charles W. Mills

4 Contract of Breach: Repairing the Racial Contract 106
Charles W. Mills

5 Race, Sex, and Indifference 134
Carole Pateman

6 Intersecting Contracts 165
Charles W. Mills

7 On Critics and Contract 200
Carole Pateman

8 Reply to Critics 230
Charles W. Mills

References 267

Index 296
"An extraordinarily helpful and enlightening work for both
non-contract and contract theorists alike, and for everyone
concerned with racial, gender and class inequality."

Political Studies Review



"Charles Mills and Carole Pateman are two exemplary philosophers
of freedom. This book is a grand contribution to our understanding
of justice. Don't miss it!"

Cornel West, Princeton University

"A provocative book that hopefully will generate intense debate
and discussion."

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

"Engaging and often thought-provoking ... [Contract and
Domination] raises good questions and portends more research
into the continued viability of contracts as a basis for thinking
about law."

Law and Politics Book Review

"This is the most sustained intersectional analysis of race and
gender to date, providing a theoretical account of how these
categories connect, overlap, mediate one another, and comparatively
structure oppression. It is also a debate in political philosophy
over the utility of the contract model for conceptualizing a more
just society. The disagreements between the authors will make this
book especially fruitful for classroom use."

Lind Martin Alcoff, Syracuse University
Carole Pateman is Distinguished Professor of Political
Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Charles W. Mills isJohn Evans Professor of Moral and
Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University.

C. Pateman, University of California at Los Angeles(UCLA)