Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This chapter reviews The Sexual Contract, a work by Carole Pateman that identifies masculinized forms of domination and assumptions of male sex-right (the “sexual contract”) embodied in the concept of “contract” generally and specific to the classic social contract theories of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Beginning with the “patriarchal confusions” that Pateman exposes in contemporary political and feminist theoretic interpretations of contract theory, the chapter then turns to Pateman’s alternative feminist “storytelling” approach to social contract theory. In particular it examines the merits of Pateman’s subversive critique of contractual relations, political right, and the subjection of women as presented through her threefold story of the “original,” “social,” and “sexual” contracts. Following an assessment of feminist receptions of Pateman’s critique of contract theory, the chapter also explores the interpretive implications of her search for a “logic” embedded in these stories and within the classic social contract texts generally. Finally, it considers the book’s fortunes in relation to new modes and disciplines of identity knowledges, along with some criticisms of the work from contemporary gender, sexuality, and queer studies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".