![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mill brought up the argument that women were largely oppressed because of the maternal and care-taking responsibilities placed upon them, which was another way that women were deprived of being able to live according to their “nature”. The lack of freedom for women also forced them to become wives and mothers because these were the only options that they had. ![]() She brought up the issue of women being excluded from common rights of citizenship, bringing up an example of British law that claims, “all persons should be tried by their peers yet women whenever tried, are tried by male judges and a male jury” (Mill 6). Mill made several important points throughout her work and one of the issues she brought up was that the present conditions did not allow women the opportunity to live according to their “nature” or desires since they were deprived of rights such as legal rights. Through this published work, Mill advocated for the “enfranchisement of women their admission, in law and in fact, to equality in all rights, political, civil, and social, with the male citizens of the community”(Mill 3). This essay was considered one of the most significant texts in feminine history as it came out during the early English feminist movement where concerns over women’s employment, education and legal status in society were brought up (Hackleman 274). The Enfranchisement of Women was written by Harriet Taylor Mill and published by the Westminster Review in July 1851. ![]()
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