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" All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, and government by self-control, but submission, and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities... "
The Lafayette Monthly - Page 77
1875
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The Subjection of Women;

John Stuart Mill - Women - 1869 - 204 pages
...government by self-control, but submission, and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the...affections are meant the only ones they are allowed to have—those to the men with whom they are connected, or to the children who constitute an additional...
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On Liberty: The Subjection of Women

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1895 - 404 pages
...government by self-control, but submission, and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the...abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but in their afleciiona. And by their affections are meant the only ones they are allowed to have—those to the...
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The Way of Composition: An Introduction to the Analytical Study of the Forms ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric, University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - American prose literature - 1926 - 412 pages
...government by self-control, but submission and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the current sentimentalities that it is thek nature, to live .for ,others, to make complete abnegation of themselves, andTo have no life but...
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Harper's Magazine, Volume 153

American literature - 1927 - 816 pages
...government by selfcontrol, but submission, and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the...complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no Ufe but in their affections. And by affections are meant the only ones they are allowed to have." Mill...
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Charlotte Brontë: The Self Conceived

Helene Moglen - Autobiographical fiction - 1984 - 260 pages
...of Wome n: "All the moralities tell women that it is their duty and all the current sent1mentalities that it is their nature to live for others; to make...themselves, and to have no life but in their affections." Women's psychological plight was intensif1ed by their economic dependence and many social Darwinians...
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Wilkie Collins: Women, Property, and Propriety

Philip O'Neill - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 262 pages
...government by self-control, but submission, and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the...abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but in their affections.14 (my italics) It is clear that the sentiment and morality which, Mill is arguing, contributes...
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J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings

John Stuart Mill - History - 1989 - 336 pages
...government by self-control, but submission, and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the...those to the men with whom they are connected, or 132 to the children who constitute an additional and indefeasible tie between them and a man. When...
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Political Learning in Adulthood: A Sourcebook of Theory and Research

Roberta S. Sigel - Political Science - 1989 - 496 pages
...government by self-control, but submission and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the...themselves, and to have no life but in their affections. (1980, p. 15). This description of the socialization of women is quite inconsistent with the qualities...
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Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays

Bradford Keyes Mudge, Sara Coleridge Coleridge - Poetry - 1989 - 324 pages
...government by self-control, but submission, and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the...themselves, and to have no life but in their affections" (The Subjection of Women [London, 1869], p. 27). 7 Elizabeth Poole Sandford, the popular author of...
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Together Again: Reuniting Men and Women, Love and Sex, Mothers and Children

Betty Steele - History - 1991 - 294 pages
...the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men ... All the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the...sentimentalities that it is their nature, to live for others.2 The present hate and vengeance and revulsion toward men, such a major component in the feminist...
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