Creating and Contesting Knowledges at the Museo Migrante

Local and Contextual: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women

“…Maria Morales thus argues that a firm grasp on the nature and scope of his break from Benthamite utilitarianism puts us in a better position to understand his arguments for perfect equality. 27 Although Morales eloquently articulates the ways in which the asymmetry of power between the sexes was naturalised, Mill's 'break' from his radical predecessors was not as sharp as her account seems to suggest. First, John Robson pointed out that in the years after the death of James Mill in 1836, the younger Mill progressively returned to his 'utilitarian home'.…”