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The Woman between Public Order and Disorder: The Ambiguities of Modernity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Aminata Diaw
Aminata Diaw*
Affiliation:
Université Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar
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Aminata Daw, École Doctorale Études sur l’homme et la société, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, BP 45469 Dakar Fann, Dakar, Sénégal Email: amidiaw@refer.sn
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Abstract

In this paper, Aminata Diaw invites discussion on contemporary women’s struggle for equality, more equitable representation and complete parity. She argues that effective expression of democracy is dependent on taking gender factors properly into account. She discusses classical Rousseau’s position, and observes that the Social Contract needs to be integrated by a Gender Contract. She concludes that the question of the citizenship of women shows that the advent of Modernity did not constitute a veritable rupture with past thought. Modernity has not produced an integration of women into the political dimension and into citizenship.

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Diogenes , Volume 57 , Issue 4: Philosophical Reflections Across Cultures , November 2010 , pp. 37 - 45
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Copyright © ICPHS 2012

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