The Subjection Of Women

by John Stuart Mill

Overview

The Subjection of Women is an essay by philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill. Mill argues in favour of legal and social equality between men and women. He writes that 'the legal subordination of one sex to the other' is 'wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781974464401
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Pages:	58
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.12(d)

About the Author

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806- 7 May 1973) was born in London, England. He was the most dominant English-language philosopher of the nineteenth century. He was a naturalist, utilitarian, and liberal whose work investigated the outcomes of a total empiricist outlook. As a result, he attempted to combine the best of eighteenth-century Enlightenment ideas with newly emerging nineteenth-century Romance and Historical Philosophy ideas. He was a member of the Liberal Party and writer of the early feminist work, The Subjection of Women. Mill was also the second Member of Parliament to call for women's right to vote after Henry Hunt in 1832. His most popular works are System of Logic (1843), On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861), and An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy (1865).

Table of Contents

	John Stuart Mill: A Chronology	vii
	Introduction	xi
	A Note on the Text	xxv
	The Subjection of Women	1
Appendix A	Preludes to The Subjection of Women	99
1.	James Mill, Essay on Government (1820)	99
2.	Harriet Taylor, "On Marriage" (1832-33?)	101
Appendix B	Comments by Mill about The Subjection of Women	105
1.	Autobiography, Chapter VII	105
2.	Letters	106
Appendix C	Nineteenth-Century Novelists on the Woman Question	115
1.	Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1818)	115
2.	Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1837-38)	115
3.	Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (1847)	116
4.	George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-72)	116
5.	Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895)	117
Appendix D	Contemporary Reviews and Critiques	119
1.	W. H. Dixon, Athenaeum	119
2.	Saturday Review	125
3.	Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Fortnightly Review	128
4.	Matthew Browne, Contemporary Review	130
5.	Anne Mozley, Blackwood's Magazine	136
6.	Margaret Oliphant, Edinburgh Review	152
7.	Goldwin Smith, Macmillan's Magazine	163
8.	J.E. Cairnes, Macmillan's Magazine	171
9.	Henry Taylor, Fraser's Magazine	179
10.	Frances Power Cobbe, Theological Review	187
11.	James Fitzjames Stephen, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity	192
Appendix E	Florence Nightingale and Sigmund Freud vs. Mill	205
1.	Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale	205
2.	Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud	207
	Notes	209
	Select Bibliography	215