The Contract and Domination

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Introduction / Carole Pateman, Charles W. Mills -- Contract and social change / A dialogue between Carole Pateman and Charles W. Mills -- The settler contract / Carole Pateman -- The domination contract / Charles W. Mills -- Contract of breach: repairing the racial contract / Charles W. Mills -- Race, sex, and indifference / Carole Pateman -- Intersecting contracts / Charles W. Mills -- On critics and contract / Carole Pateman -- Reply to critics / Charles W. Mills.;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 contempo.