The Subjection of Women

by

John Stuart Mill

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The Subjection of Women Symbols

Slavery

Mill uses the symbol of slavery to invoke horror at the status of women as well as to demonstrate all that is harmful about inequality and tyranny. He argues that womanhood is a kind of…

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The Family

Mill frames the family as both a small-scale representation of society and the key site of women’s oppression. This is not to say that every individual family is either of these things, but rather that…

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