Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics
Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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Are We All Vulnerable in Politics?
Wolstonecraft believed that politics could not be refounded on its own terms, because it was corrupt. But there's also an implied critique of hobbs in the idea that you can carve out a space for politics where it makes sense. She doesn't believe that you ever can leave the politics behind and move on. The relations between men and women as emblematic of the fundamental challenge of politics.
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