Harriet Martineau, Sarah Austin, Harriet Grote, Harriet Taylor, whom he eventually married (Harriet Taylor’s first husband was a radical Unitarian) and, possibly, Harriet’s daughter, Helen (JSM’s secretary after her mother’s death)

Iv) radical, intellectual women whom he met in such circles, eg. Iii) radical Unitarians who had long traditions of feminism – JSM moved in their circles and was part of their networks William Thompson, Charles Fourier, and followers of the Comte de St Simon Ii) also derived from English and French socialists, inc.

I) the objections of his father, James Mill, to the female suffrage James Mill: women best represented by their husbands or fathers difficult to measure happiness or pleasure but Bentham hoped to do so John Stuart Mill’s thought influenced by Jeremy Bentham and by James Mill but he did not simply follow in their footsteps JSM analysed the problems with utilitarianism but never completely abandoned it attempted to modify it, give it a ‘kinder face’Ī belief in freedom and human development PLUS a concern for justice opposed legal, economic, political disabilities of married women so that before his own marriage, he rejected the rights he would have so gained JSM’s feminism stimulated by it was possible to produce a ‘science’ of human nature ‘greatest happiness of the greatest number is the measure of the highest good’ v. Biographical outline – see separate handoutĪ school of philosophy/set of theories developed by the English thinker, Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

The subjection of women by js mill