ABSTRACT
Lisa Prügl was a doctoral student of mine at American University – one of the last in a series of ardent feminists who changed my life in many ways. As member of the faculty at Florida International University, she suggested I apply for a senior position there. Over the years, we had interminable, always stimulating arguments about conceptual issues common to feminist theory and Constructivism. Rule and exploitation were a recurring theme. In her essay she adopts my threefold conceptualization of forms of rule to great effect in assessing features of ‘masculine rule’ – a turn of phrase in which the adjective identifies one of many possible species of rule.
