 | Marcus George Singer - 2002 - 362 pages
...existing social relations between the two sexes — the legal subordination of one sex to another — is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and . . . ought to be replaced by a IS Mill, On Liberty 118591, in Utilitarianism, Liberty, and Representative... | |
 | Andrew Mark Eason, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - 2003 - 261 pages
...in this group. Mill, for example, argued for "a principle of perfect equality [between the sexes], admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other." 22 This type of reasoning also helped to influence women like Barbara Leigh Smith and Bessie Rayner... | |
 | J. L. Granatstein - 2004 - 610 pages
...which he addresses equality issues is The Subjection of Women, where he opens the essay by endorsing 'a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power...or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other'.31 Here Mill is of course referring to gender, and not racial or ethnic, equality. But most... | |
 | R. J. Morris - 2005 - 468 pages
...This was quite different from Mill's Subjection which began '...the legal subordination of one sex to the other - is wrong in itself and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement,' and concluded with the claim that the 'dull and hopeless life to which women are condemned . . . leaves... | |
 | Gene Bammel - 2005 - 438 pages
...played a significant role in the feminine revolution. Mill wrote: "The legal subordination of one sex to the other is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement. . . it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality." While a number of women took up various... | |
 | Janet Mancini Billson, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban - 2005 - 452 pages
...regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes - the legal subordination of one sex to the other - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement... it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the... | |
 | Maria H. Morales - 2005 - 216 pages
...specifically to the subject, The Subjection of Women, he states that 'the legal subordination of one sex to the other ... is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement' is 'an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinion at all... | |
 | Colin Heydt - 2006 - 175 pages
...regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes — the legal subordination of one sex to the other — is wrong in itself, and now one of...or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.'15 As we go along, we will see Mill offering an account of how the affections and imagination... | |
 | Nadia Urbinati, Alex Zakaras - 2007 - 349 pages
...regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes - the legal subordination of one sex to the other - is wrong in itself, and now one of...privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other. (CW XXI: 261) Mill's argument for gender equality in the essay rests on a more general defense of the... | |
 | Barbara A. Arrighi - 2007 - 400 pages
...regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes — the legal subordination of one sex to the other — is wrong in itself, and now one of...privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other. The difficulty is that which exists in all cases in which there is a mass of feeling to be contended... | |
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That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes - the legal subordination of one sex to the other - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by... 
