The Subjection of Women

1869 English essay by J. S. Mill, based on ideas he developed with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill; argues for equality between the sexes, largely on utilitarian grounds; attacks marriage laws and the idea that women are naturally worse at some things
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The Subjection of Women
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The Subjection of Women

Summary

The Subjection of Women is a written work[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (136 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Subjection of Women authored John Stuart Mill[3].
  • The Subjection of Women's image is recorded as The Subjection of Women.jpg[4].
  • The Subjection of Women's instance of is recorded as written work[5].
  • The Subjection of Women's publisher is recorded as Longman[6].
  • The Subjection of Women's genre is recorded as essay[7].
  • The Subjection of Women's Commons category is recorded as The Subjection of Women[8].
  • The Subjection of Women's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • The Subjection of Women's country of origin is recorded as England[10].
  • The Subjection of Women's publication date is recorded as +1869-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • The Subjection of Women's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06s9by[12].
  • The Subjection of Women's Open Library ID is recorded as OL1068105W[13].
  • The Subjection of Women's Internet Archive ID is recorded as subjectionofwome00millrich[14].
  • The Subjection of Women's has edition or translation is recorded as The Subjection of Women[15].
  • The Subjection of Women's has edition or translation is recorded as De l’assujettissement des femmes[16].
  • The Subjection of Women's has edition or translation is recorded as La servitù delle donne[17].
  • The Subjection of Women's has edition or translation is recorded as Em Tradução:A Sujeição das Mulheres[18].
  • The Subjection of Women's has edition or translation is recorded as Qvinnans underordnade ställning[19].
  • The Subjection of Women's has edition or translation is recorded as Kvindernes Underkuelse[20].
  • The Subjection of Women's work available at URL is recorded as https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/mill/hoerig/hoerig.html[21].
  • The Subjection of Women's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Subjection of Women'}[22].
  • The Subjection of Women's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The object of this Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able, the grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social or political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modified, has been constantly growing stronger by the progress of reflection and the experience of life: That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.'}[23].
  • The Subjection of Women's Project Gutenberg ebook ID is recorded as 27083[24].
  • The Subjection of Women's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'When we consider the positive evil caused to the disqualified half of the human race by their disqualification—first in the loss of the most inspiriting and elevating kind of personal enjoyment, and next in the weariness, disappointment, and profound dissatisfaction with life, which are so often the substitute for it; one feels that among all the lessons which men require for carrying on the struggle against the inevitable imperfections of their lot on earth, there is no lesson which they more need, than not to add to the evils which nature inflicts, by their jealous and prejudiced restrictions on one another. Their vain fears only substitute other and worse evils for those which they are idly apprehensive of: while every restraint on the freedom of conduct of any of their human fellow creatures, (otherwise than by making them responsible for any evil actually caused by it), dries up pro tanto the principal fountain of human happiness, and leaves the species less rich, to an inappreciable degree, in all that makes life valuable to the individual human being.'}[25].
  • The Subjection of Women's NNL item ID is recorded as 002689781[26].
  • The Subjection of Women's copyright status is recorded as public domain[27].

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The Subjection of Women's instance of is recorded as written work[5].

Why It Matters

The Subjection of Women ranks in the top 6% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (136 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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