Mill's The Subjection of Women

John Stuart Mill''s The Subjection of Women is a landmark work both in the long history of women''s struggles for political, legal, economic, and personal equality, and in the shorter history of rigorous intellectual analyses of women''s subordination. One of the lasting legacies of Mill''s The Subjection of Women is its careful argument for the need for justice at both the "public" and the "priva...