WMST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rape Culture, Benjamin Disraeli, Harriet Taylor Mill
30 Dec 2016
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Historically, men have played a pivotal role supporting women"s struggles for liberation. John stewart mill argued for equality between the sexes in his the subjection of women (1869) John deway, a pro-feminist educator in the early 20th century, fought for women"s access to higher education, and founded the men"s league for women"s suffrage. Mill"s place inn feminism is owed not just to his influential writing on women, their liberation, and equal treatment under the law and major institutions. It is partly owed to the context in which mill wrote. When mill wrote the subjection of women (1869), england was fully immersed in victorian values. Women were largely relegated to the domestic sphere. The previous georgian era allowed women of the aristocracy some ability to speak for themselves if they were learned, but this became less acceptable. Mill is trying to speak for these women.
