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The Sexual Contract
A feminist reinterpretation of social contract theory. Pateman argues that the famous story of an original contract, in which free and equal individuals create civil society, tells only…
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Considerations on Representative Government
A treatise on the design of democratic institutions, published in 1861, two years after On Liberty. Mill judges governments by two tests: how far they make use of…
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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
A short book for general readers on how to live ethically in a world where strangers are now neighbours. Appiah defends a cosmopolitanism with two strands: we owe…
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Justice and the Politics of Difference
A work of critical political theory that challenges the way most theories of justice frame their subject. Young argues that the dominant distributive paradigm treats justice as the…
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
A book by the Russian anarchist and naturalist Peter Kropotkin, written in English and collected in 1902 from essays first published in the London periodical The Nineteenth Century…
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The Invention of Women
A study by a Nigerian sociologist, subtitled Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses. Oyěwùmí argues that gender was not an organising principle of Yorùbá society before…
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The Racial Contract
A short, deliberately provocative book that uses the language of social contract theory to describe white supremacy as a political system. Mills argues that the contract stories of…
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Anarchism and Other Essays
A collection of essays and lectures by the anarchist Emma Goldman, published in New York in 1910 by her own Mother Earth Publishing Association. The title essay, 'Anarchism:…
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Return to the Source
A short collection of speeches by the agronomist and leader of the independence movement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, published in 1973, the year he was assassinated. Its…
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The Road to Serfdom
A polemical book, written in Britain during the Second World War and dedicated to the socialists of all parties, arguing that central economic planning leads toward tyranny. Hayek…
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