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Note on a Completed Project: Science Fiction and Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory” (Parts I-III)

I recently completed a three-part series over at scifi.global on Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory”. It is completely based on a single paper that he wrote. I have read two or three of Mills’s books in the past. I considered reading his book with Carole Pateman, Contract & Domination, before writing this series, but felt I had enough to go on for my purposes. After all, I am not writing a thesis or anything of the kind. This series was the reason I created the list of feminist readings, in order to link to it as relevant content. I had been reading about the Wages for Housework campaign and included that as well as some degrowth theory, which that part was not intentional. If you do find an interest in the Wages for Housework campaign, I recommend Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America by the brilliant scholar, Evelyn Nakano Glenn. It is not immediately about that campaign but certainly is a contemporary study on the realities of the abuses of caregiving. (After that you should read Unequal Freedoms: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor, another one of Glenn’s brilliant texts.)

Science Fiction and Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory” (Parts I-III)

Lieutenant Alara Kitan and Ideal Leadership

“I know what is written”: Babylon 5’s “Believers”

Discovery’s “Point of Light,” Klingon culture and “Ideal Theory,” New Visions for “Reproduction,” and “Commoning” as Future Utopia