John Stuart Mill's The Subjection Of Women

Throughout history, women have been both underestimated and rejected by a patriarchal society which was known as the nineteenth-century. The nineteenth century was a period of time where women were being morally dehumazined almost being treated as if they were slaves. At the time gender equality was non-existent for the males were seen superior while the females were seen and treated as inferiors of society. The cause of this gender imbalance was the deprivation of just opportunities, marriages, and education. The nineteenth century was filled with unjust opportunities for women. In this patriarchal society, men were the superior gender, while women were the inferior gender. John Stuart Mill states in his book The Subjection of Women, “…the mode in which women are wholly under the rule
If they had different views on a certain subject, no one would listen. Furthermore, John Stuart Mill adds that it is the women’s obligation to serve the male who she married. Margaret Fuller, a woman from the nineteenth century, adds to John Stuart Mill’s statement by saying “The man furnishes the house; the woman regulates.” What Margaret Fuller saw in society, were the women being the nurtures or housewives while the men would go to work providing for their family. As nurtures or housewives’ women would tend to the farms and cleaned the house daily for the arrival of their husband or any guest. After, having done chores the women then adopt their second job which nurturing their children. By using the word nurturing, it means that the women would care her children by either educating them or feeding them until they were all grown up, then society would take them and grant them opportunities according to their gender. The life of the women can be clearly depicted by Dorothy Hartman, a historian, article on the Conner Prairie website when she argues, “Women’s popular literature of the period is full of advice about encouragement for