The second sex. Charlie Chaplin final speech in The Great Dictator. Seminar Two ⋅ Evolution of sexuality : Subjugation and denigration of women. Now for the most painful question of all: Why do we have such a long history of subjugation and denigration of women by men? Throughout history women have been considered property—of their father, or husband, or harem owner. Why have women been treated as inferior to men, if they are the limiting resource?
In rural Afghanistan, Esther Satar, a thirteen-year-old girl was told she would be handed over to a seventy-year-old drug lord in marriage because of opium poppy crop failure. She would be payment for debts. In the the northern Indian state of Haryana, villagers attached and murdered a young couple, in an “honor killing.” So-called honor killings are also commonly reported in many Middle Eastern countries, even though most governments officially denounce it. In a 2006 article in the New York Times, Dan Bilefsky describes the tragic suicide of a young girl caught in the merciless dogma of honor killing:
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill. The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill. The Subjection of Women. The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869,[1] possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, stating an argument in favour of equality between the sexes. At the time it was published in 1869, this essay was an affront to European conventional norms for the status of men and women. John Stuart Mill credited his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, with co-writing the essay. While some scholars agreed by 2009 that John Stuart Mill was the sole author,[2] it is also noted that some of the arguments are similar to Harriet Taylor Mill's essay The Enfranchisement of Women which was published in 1851.[2] Overview[edit] The Subjection of Women (1869) offers both detailed argumentation and passionate eloquence in opposition to the social and legal inequalities commonly imposed upon women by a patriarchal culture.
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