Mary Lyndon Shanley is a feminist legal scholar specializing in issues of the American family and reproductive technologies. Her book Just Marriage weighed into the controversy around gay marriage with a historical and political science perspective.Carole Pateman is a feminist and political theorist. She is known as a critic of liberal democracy and has been a member of the British Academy since 2007.

• Introduction 1. Philosopher Queens and Private Wives: Plato on Women and the Family / Susan Moller Okin2. Aristotle: Defective Males, Hierarchy, and the Limits of Politics / Arlene Saxonhouse3. God Hath Ordained to Man a Helper: Hobbes, Patriarchy and Conjugal Right / Carole Pateman4. Early Liberal Roots of Feminism: John Locke and the Attack on Patriarchy / Melissa A. Butler5. Rousseau and Modern Feminism / Lynda Lange6. The Oppressed State of My Sex: Wollstonecraft on Reason, Feeling and Equality / Moira Gaten7. On Hegel, Women and Irony / Seyla Benhabib8. Masculine Marx / Christine Di Stefano9. Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women / Mary Lyndon Shanley10. John Rawls: Justice as Fairness For Whom? / Susan Moller Okin11. Simone de Beauvoir and Women: Just Who Does She Think 'We' Is? / Elizabeth V. Spelman12. Foucault and Feminism: Toward a Politics of Difference / Jana Sawicki13. Hannah Arendt and Feminist Politics / Mary G. Dietz14. What's Critical about Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender / Nancy Fraser

Mary Lyndon Shanley is a feminist legal scholar specializing in issues of the American family and reproductive technologies. Her book Just Marriage weighed into the controversy around gay marriage with a historical and political science perspective.Carole Pateman is a feminist and political theorist. She is known as a critic of liberal democracy and has been a member of the British Academy since 2007.

• Introduction 1. Philosopher Queens and Private Wives: Plato on Women and the Family / Susan Moller Okin2. Aristotle: Defective Males, Hierarchy, and the Limits of Politics / Arlene Saxonhouse3. God Hath Ordained to Man a Helper: Hobbes, Patriarchy and Conjugal Right / Carole Pateman4. Early Liberal Roots of Feminism: John Locke and the Attack on Patriarchy / Melissa A. Butler5. Rousseau and Modern Feminism / Lynda Lange6. The Oppressed State of My Sex: Wollstonecraft on Reason, Feeling and Equality / Moira Gaten7. On Hegel, Women and Irony / Seyla Benhabib8. Masculine Marx / Christine Di Stefano9. Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women / Mary Lyndon Shanley10. John Rawls: Justice as Fairness For Whom? / Susan Moller Okin11. Simone de Beauvoir and Women: Just Who Does She Think 'We' Is? / Elizabeth V. Spelman12. Foucault and Feminism: Toward a Politics of Difference / Jana Sawicki13. Hannah Arendt and Feminist Politics / Mary G. Dietz14. What's Critical about Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender / Nancy Fraser