John Stuart Mill’s ‘The Subjection of Women’ – with Kaushalya Perera and Marco Verweij
Most of the 5 to 6 million Ukrainian refugees in Europe are women and children. Under the banner of “Women, life, freedom” women are marching at the forefront of protests in Iran. Women are demanding their right to education in Afghanistan. Women protest the striking down of Roe and the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. Amid such challenges, one question emerges almost by necessity: Are we witnessing a resurgence of the ‘woman’ question? Together with Kaushalya Perera, Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Marco Verweij, Professor of Political Science at Jacobs University Bremen, we discuss in today’s episode John Stuart Mill’s (1806 – 1873) seminal essay 'The Subjection of Women' (1869). Is Mill’s uncompromising critique of women’s legal enslavement still something that speaks to us even today, 150 years later? In today’s episode we explore possible answers to this question together with an updated critique of Mill’s text. Join us on Critically Linked and find out more about it!