Subjection of Women, The.
Catt, Carrie Chapman, contributor. The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill. With a Foreword by Carrie Chapman Catt. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1911).
Small 8vo.; ½ inch sticker at front pastedown (beneath front flap of jacket); small bookseller’s ticket at rear pastedown; blue cloth, stamped in gilt; gray printed dust-jacket; light wear to extremities, small chip to spine; near fine.
First edition thus. Carrie Chapman Catt, then Chair of the Woman Suffrage Party of New York, opens her remarks by saying: “Mill’s ‘subjection of Women’ may well be pronounced a worthy Immortal since it must ever be regarded as the most complete statement of fundamental principles which the woman’s movement has produced.” She reviews the condition of women in 1869, when the treatise first appeared, and in 1911, pointing out that though critics objected to Mills' likening the position of women to that of slaves, 42 years hence his analogy seems all too appropriate. While legal, social and political changes have been wrought, the “fundamental truths” of his arguments “furnish the only logical ground for further advance.” “No reason more convincing, no voice more eloquent, has appeared to defend the claim that all principles of human rights apply to women as well as to men.” Catt honors Harriet Taylor Mill as well as her husband (“The combined understanding of these two clear-brained, high-thinking lovers of human liberty was a continual inspiration to workers of the past...”) and concludes by underscoring the great worth of Mill’s essay to the women’s rights movement past and present. The appearance of this new edition of The Subjection Of Women is another sign of the reawakening of the woman suffrage movement during the early 1910s. The fine foreword and the attractive condition of the book make this a very appealing form of Mills' influential treatise.
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