6/24/2023 0 Comments The subjection of women 1869![]() ![]() ![]() The institution is made worse by the fact that men are not required to prove their suitability for marriage as they must prove themselves worthy for their occupations. Because women cannot own property, inherit wealth, or work outside of the home, marriage is their only route to financial stability. Additionally, if marriage were the true aim of womanhood and provided women the fulfillment promised them, the many restrictions imposed upon women to force them into marriage would be redundant: “Society, however, both in, and, at first, in all other cases, has preferred to attain its object by foul rather than fair means: but this is the only case in which it has substantially persisted in them even to the present day” (53). Again, Mill argues that if the subjection of women were “natural,” laws limiting women would be superfluous because they would organically fill the role society has ascribed to them. ![]() Chapter 2 centers on the legal subjection of women, primarily via marriage. ![]()
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