Mill's The Subjection of Women Critical Essays

by Morales, Maria H.; Donner, Wendy; Burgess-Jackson, Keith; Annas, Julia; Okin, Susan Moller; Howes, John; Shanley, Mary Lyndon; Mendus, Susan; Urbinati, Nadia

• ISBN13: 9780742535183
• ISBN10: 0742535185
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-17
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The articles collected in this critical edition represent a variety of interpretations both of the kind of feminism Mill represents and of the specific arguments he offers in The Subjection of Women including their lexical ordering and relative merit. Each selection is preceded by a brief and useful summary of the author's position intended to assist introductory students.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
1 John Stuart Mill's Liberal Feminism	1	(12)
Wendy Donner
2 Mill on Women and Human Development	13	(11)
John Howes
3 John Stuart Mill's Feminism: The Subjection of Women and the Improvement of Mankind	24	(28)
Susan Moller Okin
4 Mill and the Subjection of Women	52	(19)
Julia Annas
5 John Stuart Mill, Radical Feminist	71	(27)
Keith Burgess-Jackson
6 The Corrupting Influence of Power	98	(16)
Maria H. Morales
7 Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women	114	(21)
Mary Lyndon Shanley
8 The Marriage of True Minds: The Ideal of Marriage in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill	135	(22)
Susan Mendus
9 John Stuart Mill on Androgyny and Ideal Marriage	157	(26)
Nadia Urbinati
Selected Bibliography	183	(4)
Index	187	(4)
About the Contributors	191