Mill and Taylor: Subjection of Women Flashcards
What was the purpose of this reading?
it provides an explanation of why women’s equality should be advanced
What is the main claim that Mill and Taylor are making?
The principle that regulates the existing social relationships between the two sexes (the legal subordination of one sex to the other) is wrong in itself, and this is one of the chief obstacles to human improvement
What are Mill’s opinions of the emancipation and education of women?
They argue that it would have a positive benefit for all (utilitarianism)
What does the current organization (men subordinating women) rest in?
This rests in theory and has never been a trial of any other experience, which means that it cannot be opposed to theory in that sense. Begs the question of how do we know that inequality is better?
What are some examples of this inequalities today?
Never having a woman as president, majority of the worlds poor is women, major cities have never been designed or build by women, etc.
How was the existing system come into place?
This system was not brought in cased on deliberation of what was going to benefit humanity
How are laws made?
building on already existing relations between individuals, giving people legal rights based on these relations and creating organizes means of assessing these rights
how is the inequality defended?
this was not a rule of force, since it is accepted voluntarily by women but this is not the case. there is a good number of women that are opposed to it and have began to speak out against it in writings.
