El sometimiento de la mujer

Firm plea against traditional patriarchal society, "The submission of women" is one of the texts that laid the foundations for the emancipation of women and their incorporation into civil society on an equal footing with men, and which should be seen his greatest achievements (at least on paper) in the 20th century. Composed by John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) between 1860 and 1861 with the participation of his stepdaughter Helen Taylor, a determined activist in favor of women's suffrage and women's rights, which gives this essay its value of universality and permanence It is the deep elaboration that is carried out in it on a relatively small repertoire of basic ideas regarding the submission (and liberation) of women, but also the validity of its recommendations, still applicable among human groups within undeveloped societies as well as in wide areas of coexistence in the socialized world.