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THE COLLECTED WRITINGS ON WOMEN'S ISSUES, September 7, 2011
This review is from: Essays on Sex Equality (Paperback)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was a British philosopher, economist, and Member of Parliament. Harriet Taylor Mill (1807-1858) was also a philosopher and women's rights advocate; Mill was her second husband, and she was a major influence on Mill's works (and so acknowledged by Mill) such as
On Liberty.
Here are some quotations from the collection of their writings:
"...a married woman is presumed to be a useful member of society unless there is evidence to the contrary; a single woman must establish what very few other women or men ever do establish, an INDIVIDUAL claim." (JSM)(Pg. 73)
"The question is not what marriage ought to be, but a far wider question, what woman ought to be." (JSM)(Pg. 73)
"If nature has not made men and women unequal, still less ought the law to make them so." (JSM)(Pg. 73)
"When, however, we ask why the existence of one-half the species should be merely ancillary to that of the other---why each woman should be a mere appendage to a man, allowed to have no interests of her own, that there may be nothing to compete in her mind with his interests and his pleasure; the only reason which can be given is, that men like it." (HTM)(Pg. 107)
"The mental companionship which is improving, is communion between active minds, not mere contact between an active mind and a passive. This inestimable advantage is even now enjoyed, when a strong-minded man and a strong-minded woman are, by a rare chance, united: and would be had far oftener, if education took the same pains to form strong-minded women which it takes to prevent them from being formed." (HTM)(Pg. 113)
"The plea that women do not desire any change, is the same that has been urged, times out of mind, against the proposal of abolishing any social evil---'there is no complaint'; which is generally not true, and when true, only so because there is not that hope of success, without which complaint seldom makes itself audible to unwilling ears." (HTM)(Pg. 118)
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A great resource on Victorian Women's Literature!, September 18, 1998
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This review is from: Essays on Sex Equality (Paperback)
Rossi proposes a good argument on the Authorship of "Enfranchisment of Women". However, I feel that, at times, her argument becomes very confusing. There seems to me to be no doubt that Harriet Taylor Mill actually wrote the essay.
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