Just How far ahead of his time was Mill?

As I was reading John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women, all that came to my mind was how drastically the rights for women have changed over the 20th century.  This led me to think of how long it has taken for Mill’s ideas to actually come to pass; he was far ahead of his [...]

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If Sarah Palin Was a Man

            Note: I’d like to say that this paper does not include quotes from Mill’s “Subjection of Women,” or from Professor LM’s article, even though it is about the same sort of thing, because neither of those prompted me to write this. I was prompted from talks that took place in discussion section, which are [...]

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Feminism: Fighting for Assimilation Rather than Equality

                Throughout history, women have been discriminated against. From being denied the right to vote, to being restricted in job opportunities and dominated by their husbands, as Mill tries to address in Subjection of Women.  But where did all of this start? Men and women are obviously biologically different, but these differences have not always [...]

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New research on altruism supports Mill’s arguments in “Subjection of Women”

An article I read in New York Times today discussed the possibility that humans are inherently altruistic.  Hobbes, along with several of the authors whose work we have read this semester, would immediately disagree and assert that our own self-interest is behind all of our decisions and actions.  However, I think John Stuart Mill would [...]

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