Goodreads Doesn't Have It, Data Migration: The Sexual Contract
This is one of the darkest books you may read as a feminist. It speaks about the fact that philosophical heroes like Kant in one breath spoke about categorical imperatives and in the other said that political agency did not apply to women. Their hypocrisy evaded them.
What is most disturbing about this book is the application of Hobbesian State of Nature to the woman. The book clearly states that sex is not subordination, and that whenever it is, it is considered rape, or violent encounters of intercourse. Yet, many women know the true reality of what sex has become (and has been for ages) in such an entitled male world.
The author makes the clear point that in a world where you can't expect to not be raped and you can't expect equal exercise of justice as a woman, it is in your interest to not have children. The children will hold you down. He makes it clear that many civilizations that relied on rape luckily died out on this point, and will continue to.
In addition, the author speaks of political life as that which creates value. Rape is the failure to validate that agents are actually exchanging and not validate an exchange as actual. No benefit comes to the other party, in fact harm, and no compensation is made (they juxtapose this in contrast to the prostitute that has no pleasure from the sex but nevertheless is compensated). The economy is destroyed by rape as the agent so demanded never wants to exchange again because nothing of equal or greater value to that which was demanded from them is provided.
Finally, they also speak on the truth that there is no such thing as consent in a world where women do not have equal access to justice. If a woman cannot expect the justice of a man, then contract is just a sham to make the pain a little less. If this is the case, then it's true that women are in a state of nature and benefit from not having children who will hold down their survival where they can't expect to not be raped. They need to be able to leave the rapist unburdened. Having a child due to being unable to expect not being raped and not having the rapist see justice will hold them down.
The closing remark is that while men feel they have the sex-right (the unspoken right to have sex with a woman they find attractive) without believing that she also has a compensation right, women in high sexual demand will see their nonsexual labor depreciated to quietly suggest more can be made fulfilling the male sex right. Yet, by giving into this market should she do so, she sacrifices the value of her nonsexual labor perhaps permanently. Thus, neither choice is optimal to her and her best bet is to try to lose sexual attractiveness as much as is possible and to remain in the nonsexual labor force.
This book will make you sick but it will also open your eyes.
Women live in a state of nature. We can no longer expect rapists to see justice, it is clear. It is important to not have their children.