Introducing Feminism

adding that women must also be allowed to contribute to the labour market and to the legal and justice systems on an equal basis with men

SEXUAL INEQUALITY HAS BEEN IMPOSED ON WOMEN BY SOCIAL CUSTOM AND SHOULD NOT BE SEEN AS A NATURAL CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR BIOLOGY.

they agree on principles and disagree on the solutions further testifies to their personal engagement with these issues.

On the Subjection of Women

The Enfranchisement of Women

and Mill were attracted to each other intellectually and emotionally, although it is believed that their relationship remained Platonic until they were married following the death of John Taylor.

Harriet Taylor was married and mother to two children when she met J.S. Mill and began a long-term relationship with him – with the permission of her husband John Taylor

Harriet Taylor Mill

She will never attempt to rule, or appear to rule her husband. Such conduct degrades husbands — and wives always partake largely of the degradation of their husbands.

Frances Wright, founder of the Nashoba commune