[Olog-hai]

Please don’t say there’s nothing to do with it. There clearly is, especially what with Mill’s treatise coming out 21 years after the Communist Manifesto. Mill was not attacking Islamic misogyny. He was attacking the traditional family by framing the marriage contract in terms of female bondage to males, universally.

[miss marmelstein]

At the time, women were prisoners of their husbands - if the husbands were so inclined. They could not inherit, their father's lands were assigned to the husband and they could not get custody of children in a divorce. Ever read A Doll's House? Ever read Charlotte Bronte? These works of literature did not come out of some angry bitch's imagination - they came out of the mind's of great men and women as products of the Enlightenment tradition.