MILL, John Stuart.
The Subjection of Women.
London: Lonmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer , 1869.
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“The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism": First Edition of John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women; Signed by Him
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half title page, "From the Author." This was a customary way to sign books in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In very good condition. Most rare signed.
Written in 1861 and published eight years later, this influential essay by the great English philosopher and economist is still relevant and its arguments significant. Believing that the subjugation of women was primarily political and psychological in origin, Mill urged the establishment of "complete equality in all legal, political, social, and domestic relations between men and women."
Arguing for both legal reforms and a social revolution, he focuses on women's exclusion from the political process, their lack of any rights in marriage, and the benefits to be obtained by their liberation. Moreover, if they are to share the freedoms enjoyed by men, equal opportunities for employment and education for women are also necessary.
For its time, the work was radical and far-reaching in its demands; but despite its repeated emphasis on forms of oppression and recognition of the difficulties endured by women, it is essentially an optimistic work maintaining a firm belief that increased equality and liberty for women were inevitable.
Carefully researched and clearly expressed with great logic and consistency, the book remains a landmark in the struggle for human rights.
The Subjection of Women.
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