Assignment 02
In Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman I noticed how she is addressing how much women have suffered through history; when it comes to being equal and man being superior. She explains how the sexual contract is not quite complete. In other words, the people who wrote it were all males with no women’s opinions. In my understanding the contract will only benefit whoever wrote it and all males. According to The Sexual Contract women were just a subject to man, meaning every man had power over women. The marriage contract only meant two people coming together to create a family, luckily women had the right to stay with the child. This reading reminded me of the first one we did in class, if equality of rights is so self-evident, why did this allegation had to be made. Same thing goes with this topic. It was self-evident how women were thread it and how all males felt towards all females, then why it was so important to made this contract. The argument would be why is so important to make this type of contracts what was the point of it. The social contract left women out with no liberties and political rights, which means women didn’t have a voice to prove that they deserve equality. “only men, that is to say, are ‘individuals’ (p.6). It was officially, women were seen as nothing it was really unfair for women. What exactly a woman or just the female gender did to deserve this kind of punishment. I believe that in a civil sphere women wouldn’t be equal as man and their only right would be to focus on their families or husband. The contract talks about the rule women needed to follow in order to achieve wifely duties. This means woman were seen as property or subjects to man, they weren’t considered civil individuals they would have had the same freedom as man. In conclusion, women weren’t incorporated in the original contract because according the theorists only man were seen as individuals and women as property. In addition, since all females were property all males have the power to do whatever they wish with them. The sexual contracts are a subjection of women and social contract is the freedom each gender had. The argument in this chapter was about women being a property and how man had the opportunity to do whatever they want.
