POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jeremy Bentham, Robert Filmer, Masturbation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2150
• Professor: Carol Dauda

Document Summary

Gender and power in modernity liberalism and the family. Liberal equality and asymmetries of power: consent and contract, liberalism: Sex, the inequalities of power and authority in the family. Family in liberalism: patriarchal concept of the family lies at the heart of liberalism liberalism cant do without the patriarchal family. It is ho(cid:271)(cid:271)es a(cid:374)d lo(cid:272)ke that (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to (cid:272)ou(cid:374)ter fil(cid:373)er(cid:859)s argu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, he looks (cid:373)ostly at fil(cid:373)er(cid:859)s religious (cid:271)a(cid:272)kgrou(cid:374)d to his thought. Locke wanted to counter him more dramatically by making the family modern, by bringing marriage into liberalism, like any other contract the two can break the contract of marriage if they agree, the father must naturally rule. Both hobbes and locke think that the husband should rule the family because men are bigger than women. Second argument, the father bestows estates on children so children must obey the accumulation of capital is whats happening.