Hobbes on Sex

Why care what Hobbes thought about sex? Contemporary scholars have largely dismissed Hobbes''s brief, and somewhat scattered, remarks about gender and sexuality as peripheral to his central concerns. In Hobbes on Sex, the first book-length study of Hobbes''s writings on these topics, Susanne Sreedhar challenges this dismissal.

Far from being haphazard or tangential, Hobbes''s views on sex are inte...