Things-their occupations, their pleasures, theirīusiness. They would give to both the sameįunctions, impose on both the same duties, and grantĢ0 to both the same rights they would mix them in all Would make of man and woman beings not onlyĮqual but alike. Together the different characteristics of the sexes, The coarse and lawless fancies of our age have taken aġ5 There are people in Europe who, confounding More than ever, I feel the necessity of making myselfĬlearly understood for there is no subject on which Inferiors generally speaking, will raise woman andġ0 make her more and more the equal of man. Son, the master and servant, and superiors and Which bring nearer to the same level the father and In human nature? I believe that the social changes That great inequality of man and woman which hasĥ seemed, up to the present day, to be eternally based Society but is this all? or does it not ultimately affect Modifies the different inequalities which originate in As United States and European societies grew increasingly democratic during the nineteenth century, debates arose about whether freedoms enjoyed by men should be extended to women as well. Passage 2 is adapted from Harriet Taylor Mill, “Enfranchisement of Women.” Originally published in 1851. Passage 1 is adapted from Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume 2.
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