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Hats off as well to the one really good guy of this era who spoke up for women -- the venerable John Stuart Mill, whose 1869 Essay on the Subjection of Women asked for the first time whether home and family are women's only natural vocations, or whether in a world where formal employment was moving outside the home, wives must necessarily follow.
Ellen Chesler: How Women Became Citizens (Hint: It Didn't Happen Overnight!) Ellen Chesler 2011
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Subjection in minor affairs does not drive men to resistance, but it crosses them at every turn, till they are ready to surrender the exercise of their own will.
Weird Things 2010
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Subjection let the government leaders, leads by example.
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What free is for creators from subordinated groups is actually a pretty fraught question, as John Stuart Mill eloquently noted in The Subjection of Women.
Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Hats off as well to the one really good guy of this era who spoke up for women -- the venerable John Stuart Mill, whose 1869 Essay on the Subjection of Women asked for the first time whether home and family are women's only natural vocations, or whether in a world where formal employment was moving outside the home, wives must necessarily follow.
Ellen Chesler: How Women Became Citizens (Hint: It Didn't Happen Overnight!) Ellen Chesler 2011
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Subjection of nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization or rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground -- what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor?
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Among the couples she dissects are John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, and like Mill in his famous 1869 essay “The Subjection of Women,” Rose calls marriage the “primary political experience in which most of us engage as adults,” implicating “questions about the role of power and the nature of equality.”
THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010
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Articles with titles such as "The Subjection of Wives" were not uncommon in the pages of these journals.
'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008
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Subjection in minor affairs breaks out every day, and is felt by the whole community indiscriminately.
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Well, in the fall semester of the survey class, one of the three syllabi given has Burke and no feminist theory; one has no Burke and J. S. Mill On the Subjection of Women; one has neither.
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