...Review I Q I 1 7 | Towards global female well-being JANET MANCINI BILLSON AND CAROLYN FLUEHR-LOBBAN The principle which regulates the existing social...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...

..."the progress of reflection and the experience of life" had only served to strengthen. This opinion is that the principle which regulates the existing social...of one sex to the other — is wrong in itself and one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of...

...incorruptibly just and pure examples . . .'.97 This was quite different from Mill's Subjection which began '...the legal subordination of one sex to the other...of the chief hindrances to human improvement,' and concluded with the claim that the 'dull and hopeless life to which women are condemned . . . leaves...

...869 essay The Subjection of Women. played a significant role in the feminine revolution. Mill wrote: "The legal subordination of one sex to the other is...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...

...The only exception proved to be a very influential one, however. Mill's treatise in which he argues that "the principle which regulates the existing social...subordination of one sex to the other — is wrong in itself" (Mill 1988, 1) has been received very positively by feminists in the nineteenth and twentieth century....

...possibly be obtained by it.'95 On the opening page of The Subjection of Women, Mill maintains that 'the legal subordination of one sex to the other ......itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.96 For Stephen, this statement is tautological since 'human improvement' supplies the criterion...