Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on sexual equality historical, methodological and philosophical issues /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guillin, Vincent
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2009.
Series:Studies in the history of political thought ; v. 1.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Comte and Mill on sexual equality : context and problems
  • The female brain and the subjection of women : biology, phrenology and sexual equality
  • The phrenological controversy
  • The explanation of moral phenomena : Comte and Mill on the architectonics of the moral sciences
  • A never ending subjection? : Comte, Mill, and the sociological argument against sexual equality
  • The ethological fiasco : the methodological shortcomings of the Millian science of the formation of character
  • How to discover one's nature : Mill's argument for emancipation in the Subjection of women
  • Conclusion.