Dis-embedding the Sexual/Social Contract

Citizenship and Gender in Nepal

Bibliographic Data

ID4525548
AuthorsSeira Tamang (corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume6
Issue3
Pages309-324
Publication date2002-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1362102022000011630
OpenAlexW1978999973
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited20

Carole Pateman's work has been central to feminist critiques of the social contract, revealing it to be better understood as the sexual/social contract in which not only is the contracting individual male, but constructed through the active exclusion of women from the pact. These gendered roles are argued to be the result of the restructuring of society in the advent of modernity. The ramifications for the relationship between gender and citizenship in the non-West where modernity has taken a different trajectory are unclear. By mapping out the nature of citizenship as it evolves in its historical form in Nepal, this article argues not only that citizenship comes to be gendered in historically and culturally specific ways, but that the specific manner in which Nepal has been inserted in the late capitalist global economy--via 'development'--has resulted in de-politicized forms of citizenship with local and global constraints on the enlargement of its political potential

Citizenship · Economics · Modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resizing · Restructuring · Social contract · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law