1. An important aspect of arguments for expanding the vote to marginal or disenfranchised social groups, i.e., working class males and women, involved exposing the contradictions and consequences of the subordination of one segment of the population to another. Please describe John Stuart Mill's argument for extending the vote to women in The Subjection of Women (1867).
One of the most important aspects of the argument for expanding the vote to marginal and disenfranchised social groups such as working class males and women, involved exposing the contradictions and consequences of the subordination of one segment of the population to another. In John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women, we can see how his argument for extending the vote to women. The Subjection of Women was one of John Stuart Mill's last and finest literary efforts, written in opposition to the social and legal inequalities commonly imposed upon women by a patriarchal culture. In it, Mill argues the practical difficulty of arguing successfully against an opinion that is widely-held and deeply-entrenched even though it relies upon nothing better than a vaguely-expressed presumption of the natural superiority of males. In fact, Mill pointed out, the domination of men over womenùlike conquest or slavery in any other formùoriginated in nothing more than the brute application of physical power. But this reliance upon physical force as a means of obtaining and maintaining control over other human beings has been abandoned in every other area of political life. "The social subordination of women thus stands out an isolated fact in modern social institutions; a solitary breach of what has become their fundamental lawá.á.á." (Subjection of Women 1). Thus, Mill argued that reliance of physical strength and violence should not be tolerated in this instance, either.
2. One distinctive feature of the Victorian era is the growing presence of the empire as a visible
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