John Stuart Mill · Politics

The Subjection of Women

Mill’s radical argument, generations ahead of its time, that the inequality of women is a relic of barbarism and that we cannot even know women’s ‘nature’ under oppression.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Mill attacks the appeal to women’s ‘nature.’ Reconstruct his argument that this nature is unknowable under conditions of inequality, in your own words.

Leads to Simone de Beauvoir.

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