The Subjection of Women
"The Subjection of Women" by John Stuart Mill is an essay published in 1869, developed jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill. At a time when European society viewed women as naturally inferior and properly subordinate to men, Mill challenged the foundations of gender inequality. He argued that claims about women's natural limitations were baseless speculation, since women had never been allowed to prove their capabilities under conditions of equality. Mill contended that liberating half the human population would benefit not only individual women but all of society.
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On Liberty
Utilitarianism
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
Considerations on Representative Government
Principles of Political Economy
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)
Autobiography
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, 7th Edition, Vol. I
Auguste Comte and Positivism
Socialism
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, 7th Edition, Vol. II
Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy
The Contest in America
La libertà
Om Tanke- och Yttrandefrihet
