Women in the Ontological Basement

Feminist political philosopher Lorenne Clark made the assertion that from the standpoint of political theory, women, children, and the family live in an "ontological basement" not because of some historical accident or necessity, but as the consequence of an arbitrary definition (Curren, 2003). Clark, joined by Jane Roland Martin (1985), advanced the argument that the reproductive processes of society were excluded arbitrarily from the political domain which was defined by male thinkers in relation to the public world of productive processes. The reproductive processes were described as including creation and birth and raising children to a status of independence. Curren (2003) suggests that the analogy thus drawn

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