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“The legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human development.” (J. S. Mill). Comment.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 15 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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The words open John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women, written in 1861 and published in 1869. Mill's own phrase is human improvement, and the sentence goes on to demand a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other. He credited the argument to Harriet…

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  • Wrong in Itself
  • A Hindrance to Human Improvement
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