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The Subjection of Women is an essay by English philosopher, political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill published in 1869, with ideas he developed jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill. Mill submitted the finished manuscript of their collaborative work On Liberty (1859) soon after her untimely death in late 1858, and then continued work on The Subjection of Women until its completion in 1861. At the time of its publication, the essay's argument for equality between the sexes was an affront to European conventional norms regarding the status of men and women. In his Autobiography, Mill describes his indebtedness to his wife, and his daughter Helen Taylor for the creation of The Subjection of Women: As ultimately published it was enriched with some important ideas of my daughter's and some passages of her writing. But all that is most striking and profound in what was written by me belongs to my wife, coming from the fund of thought that had been made common to us both by our innumerable conversations and discussions on a topic that filled so large a place in our minds
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781006324734 |
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Publisher: | Blurb |
Publication date: | 11/05/2021 |
Pages: | 102 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.21(d) |
About the Author
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 - 7 May 1873),[8] usually cited as J. S. Mill, was a British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century",[9] Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control.[10] Mill was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by his predecessor Jeremy Bentham. He contributed to the investigation of scientific methodology, though his knowledge of the topic was based on the writings of others, notably William Whewell, John Herschel, and Auguste Comte, and research carried out for Mill by Alexander Bain. Mill engaged in written debate with Whewell.[11] A member of the Liberal Party and author of the early feminist work The Subjection of Women, he was also the second Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage after Henry Hunt in 1832
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 |
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