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@article{ART002445965},
author={Min, Eun Kyung},
title={Hobbes, Women, and Contract: Is There a Woman in Hobbes’s Social Contract Theory?},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2019},
volume={76},
number={1},
pages={11-45},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.76.1.201902.11}

TY - JOUR
AU - Min, Eun Kyung
TI - Hobbes, Women, and Contract: Is There a Woman in Hobbes’s Social Contract Theory?
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2019
VL - 76
IS - 1
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 11
EP - 45
SN - 1598-3021
AB - During the past fifty years, feminist scholars have increasingly engaged with Hobbes’s political theory. Although Hobbes’s political vision has consistently come under fire for being hyperindividualist, authoritarian, and masculinist, his theory of the state of nature is increasingly seen as offering resources for feminist theory. This article attempts to take stock of the rich and varied feminist response to Hobbes. It offers detailed original readings of passages from Hobbes’s Elements of Nature, De Cive, and Leviathan that deal specifically with the difference between mother-right and father-right, the definition of the family, contracts between women and men, and women’s role in the commonwealth. The paper proposes that, ultimately, Hobbes evinces a sensitivity toward sex but operates without a sophisticated notion of gender, especially in his theory of the instituted, artificial commonwealth.
KW - Thomas Hobbes;Social Contract;Sexual Difference;Gender;State of Nature;Family;State;Feminism
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.76.1.201902.11
ER -

Min, Eun Kyung. (2019). Hobbes, Women, and Contract: Is There a Woman in Hobbes’s Social Contract Theory?. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 76(1), 11-45.

Min, Eun Kyung. 2019, "Hobbes, Women, and Contract: Is There a Woman in Hobbes’s Social Contract Theory?", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.76, no.1 pp.11-45. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.76.1.201902.11

Min, Eun Kyung "Hobbes, Women, and Contract: Is There a Woman in Hobbes’s Social Contract Theory?" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 76.1 pp.11-45 (2019) : 11.

Min, Eun Kyung. Hobbes, Women, and Contract: Is There a Woman in Hobbes’s Social Contract Theory?. 2019; 76(1), 11-45. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.76.1.201902.11

Min, Eun Kyung. "Hobbes, Women, and Contract: Is There a Woman in Hobbes’s Social Contract Theory?" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 76, no.1 (2019) : 11-45.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.76.1.201902.11

Min, Eun Kyung. Hobbes, Women, and Contract: Is There a Woman in Hobbes’s Social Contract Theory?. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 76(1), 11-45. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.76.1.201902.11

Min, Eun Kyung. Hobbes, Women, and Contract: Is There a Woman in Hobbes’s Social Contract Theory?. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2019; 76(1) 11-45. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.76.1.201902.11

Min, Eun Kyung. Hobbes, Women, and Contract: Is There a Woman in Hobbes’s Social Contract Theory?. 2019; 76(1), 11-45. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.76.1.201902.11

Min, Eun Kyung. "Hobbes, Women, and Contract: Is There a Woman in Hobbes’s Social Contract Theory?" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 76, no.1 (2019) : 11-45.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.76.1.201902.11