ABSTRACT
Women, children and the family dwell in the 'ontological basement', outside and underneath the political structure. This apolitical status is due not to historical accident or necessity, but to arbitrary definition .... Since the subject matter of political theory is politics and since reproductive processes have traditionally been assigned to women and have taken place within the family, it follows that women and the family are excluded from the very subject matter of the discipline (Roland Martin, 1994, pp. 107-8).
