The Subjection of Women

by John Stuart Mill

Overview

Influential essay by great English philosopher argues for equality in all legal, political, social and domestic relations between men and woman. Carefully reasoned and clearly expressed with great logic and consistency, the work remains a landmark in the struggle for human rights.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789506365
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing
Publication date:	01/31/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	666 KB

About the Author

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was one of the leading Victorian philosophers, greatly influencing the development of liberalism. He worked for the East India Company between 1823 and 1858, and wrote a number of influential works including On Liberty, Utilitarianism and The Subjection of Women. Between 1865 and 1868 he was an MP, where he was a strong advocate for social reforms and the creation of a more liberal and democratic society.

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

Editorial Reviews

"An excellent and affordable edition, with a pithy introduction by Okin that that contextualizes and summarizes the argument well. Mill's work affords insight not only into the issue of women's emancipation, but also into the world of 19th century liberalism: its views of history, of class, and of slavery." --Peter C. Caldwell, Rice University

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