Book · 1869 · Nonfiction

The Subjection of Women

Name: The Subjection of Women
Author: John Stuart Mill

Hackett Pub. Co. · 109 pages

★ 6.8 editorial score

The legal subordination of one sex to the other is wrong in itself and a hindrance to human improvement. Mill wrote that when a married Englishwoman could own nothing and had no vote.

Genre

Political philosophy Feminism

Medium

Essays

Subject

Oppression of women

Time

1869

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Quote · 1869

“So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.”

John Stuart Mill

Quote · 1957

“I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.”

Robert Mueller

Quote · 1860

“Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customers, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton