The Subjection of Women / Edition 1

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:	9780879753351
Publisher:	Prometheus Books
Publication date:	03/01/1986
Series:	Great Books in Philosophy
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	106
Product dimensions:	5.58(w) x 8.16(h) x 0.26(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

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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