Carole Pateman

Charles 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 contemporary contract tradition's silence on them. Both books have become classics of revisionist radical democratic political theory. Now Pateman and Mills are collaborating for the first time in an interdisciplinary volume, drawing on their insights from political science and philosophy. They are building on but going beyond their earlier work to bring the sexual and racial contracts together. In Contract and Domination, Pateman and Mills discuss their differences about contract theory and whether it has a useful future, excavate the (white) settler contract that created new civil societies in North America and Australia, argue via a non-ideal contract for reparations to black Americans, confront the evasions of contemporary contract theorists, explore the intersections of gender and race and the global sexual-racial contract, and reply to their critics. This iconoclastic book throws the gauntlet down to mainstream white male contract theory. It is vital reading for anyone with an interest in political theory and political philosophy, and the systems of male and racial domination.

The Contract and Domination

The History of Chivalry Or Knighthood and Its Times

Or, Knighthood and Its Times

The History of Chivalry

Nestled in the towering mountains of Montana, Shadow Creek Ranch is a place where kids discover God's unconditional love. Packed with exciting adventures, close friendships, and intriguing mysteries.

River of Fear

Attic Nights

The travels of Theodore Ducas, in various countries in Europe, at the revival of letters and art

The History of the Crusades for the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land

Reproduction of the original: The History of Chivalry, Volume I (of 2) by Charles Mills

Volume 1

The History of Chivalry, Volume I (of 2)

For the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land

The History of the Crusades

In From Class to Race, Charles Mills maps the theoretical route that brought him to the innovative conceptual framework outlined in his academic bestseller The Racial Contract (1997). Mills argues for a new critical theory that develops the insights of the black radical political tradition. While challenging conventional interpretations of key Marxist concepts and claims, the author contends that Marxism has been 'white' insofar as it has failed to recognize the centrality of race and white supremacy to the making of the modern world. By appealing to both mainstream liberal values and the structuralism traditionally associated with the left, Mills asserts that critical race theory can radicalize the mainstream Enlightenment and develop a new kind of contractarianism that deals frontally with race and other forms of social oppression rather than evading them.

Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism

From Class to Race

Charles Mills

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