Gersande La Flèche wants to read The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman
This is actually a book I've been meaning to read for a while, since I took a feminist epistemology course in undergrad (checks time piece err, a few centuries ago now). It popped up in a recent Philosophy Tube video and the name of the author, Carole Pateman, reminded me of reading excerpts of her a million years ago. She's a second-wave feminist, so there is a lot to criticise too (I mean, let's not kid ourselves, Pateman hates sex workers, trans people, and a lot of queers), but I also think the book is an important puzzle piece in the philosophical discussion around what we owe each other as humans and deconstructing big time the ideas behind the Enlightenment-era social contract theory that, among other things, our legal system is arguably built on.