Sexual Equality : : A Mill-Taylor Reader / / Ann P. Robson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Robson, Ann P.,
• MitwirkendeR: Mill, J.S.,; Taylor Mill, Harriet,; Taylor, Harriet,; Taylor, Helen,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (446 p.)

All the significant ideas in nineteenth-century English feminism can be found in the prose and thought of John Stuart Mill and in those of the two women central to his life: Harriet Taylor, who married him in 1851, and her daughter, Helen Taylor. Together they produced some of the most powerful and influential writings ever penned to promote women's equality, and it was to this family that the Victorian women's movement in England came to look for leadership, guidance, and money.In this volume, Ann Robson and John Robson bring together the writings and speeches from these three seminal thinkers on the subject of sexual equality. Some of these pieces have not been available in published form for more than a century. They cover such topics as love, sex, marriage, children, property, domestic relations, divorce, and suffrage.Sexual Equality is a necessary tool for understanding the development of ideas on women's issues in the Mill household. These ideas influenced thinking on sexual equality far beyond England and far past the Victorian period.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part one: Marriage and Divorce -- On Marriage -- On Marriage -- St. Simonism in London -- Stability of Society -- Bentham on Divorce -- Liberty and Divorce -- Comte on Women -- Married Women’s Property -- Extracts -- Part two: Domestic Cruelty and Injustice -- The Suicide of Sarah Brown -- The Case of William Burn -- The Case of the North Family -- The Case of Anne Bird -- The Case of Mary Ann Parsons -- The Case of Susan Moir -- The Law of Assault -- Wife Murder -- Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy’s Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women and Children -- A Recent Magisterial Decision -- Part three: Social Equality -- Women and Criticism -- What Are the Subjects on Which It Is Desirable to Lay the Greatest Stress in the Education of Women? -- Self-Education -- Equality in Russia -- The Contagious Diseases Acts -- Prostitution and Marriage -- The Contagious Diseases Acts -- Nursing -- Election to the London School Board 1 -- Election to the London School Board 2 -- Extracts -- Part four: Political Equality -- Women’s Rights -- The Enfranchisement of Women -- Political Rights -- Part five: The Suffrage Campaign -- Parliamentary Suffrage for Women -- The Exclusion of Women from the Franchise -- The Ladies’ Petition -- The Admission of Women to the Electoral Suffrage -- Propagandizing for the Cause -- Women’s Suffrage 1 -- Women’s Suffrage 2 -- Women’s Suffrage 3 -- Speech on Women’s Suffrage 4 -- Women’s Rights as Preached by Women -- Part six: The Subjection of Women -- The Subjection of Women -- Additional Reading -- Index