Mill's argument that the legal subordination of women is wrong and a chief obstacle to human progress. A landmark of liberal feminism.
Books that mention The Subjection of Women (2)
Educated by Tara Westover: “weaving the strands I'd found in Hume's Principles of Morals with filaments from Mill's The Subjection of Women.”
An Encouragement of Learning by Fukuzawa Yukichi: “Today it seems almost natural that men attend to affairs outside and women manage the home, but Stuart Mill wrote The Subjection of Women, attempting to break this age-old, seemingly fixed custom. [auto-translated]”