Maxine Molyneux Women's Movements in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond (2000)
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Reformers like Mill saw women's oppression as a 'relic of the past...discordant with the future and which must necessarily disappear.'
— Maxine Molyneux Women
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About John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), also known as J. S. Mill, was an English political philosopher and economist who was an advocate of utilitarianism.
About John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), also known as J. S. Mill, was an English political philosopher and economist who was an advocate of utilitarianism.
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