This week's readings by John Stuart Mills, Sarah Stickney Ellis, Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot), and Queen Victoria all involved women's rights, and how this issue was seen by men and women alike. In Mills’ “Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands” he talks about how he doesn't agree with the British law concerning a women losing her rights to her husband upon marriage and doesn't wish this for his new wife. Ellis’ essay “The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits” she takes a stand against women having an education like that of a man. She instead feels that women need to learn things that can assist them in being the moral compass for the men in their lives. In another reading Evans, (male pseudonym George Eliot) compared
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She then request for them to do what they can to end the movement.
After reading this week's readings I have to say I saw things from a different point of view. The first viewpoint that I witnessed was that of John Stuart Mills and I got to say it was a refreshing take in things. I knew that their must have been men who advocated for the rights of women, but before reading his “Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands” I don't think I had ever seen writing to back up that first notion. It was very interesting to me that in the piece he talked about how he wouldn't take these legal rights from his wife because he wouldn't want it to be done to him. This is interesting to me because it makes me think that he doesn't trust himself with that responsibility. He obviously loves and respects his rights, but even he knows that he is human and he doesn't trust himself to never use these legal rights against his wife. Weather the this be true or not we will not know unless specified by John Stuart Mills himself but this is still an interesting theory that I hope we explore more in class. Among this reading I also saw the point of view of women who don't feel like women are equal to men and
She then request for them to do what they can to end the movement.
After reading this week's readings I have to say I saw things from a different point of view. The first viewpoint that I witnessed was that of John Stuart Mills and I got to say it was a refreshing take in things. I knew that their must have been men who advocated for the rights of women, but before reading his “Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands” I don't think I had ever seen writing to back up that first notion. It was very interesting to me that in the piece he talked about how he wouldn't take these legal rights from his wife because he wouldn't want it to be done to him. This is interesting to me because it makes me think that he doesn't trust himself with that responsibility. He obviously loves and respects his rights, but even he knows that he is human and he doesn't trust himself to never use these legal rights against his wife. Weather the this be true or not we will not know unless specified by John Stuart Mills himself but this is still an interesting theory that I hope we explore more in class. Among this reading I also saw the point of view of women who don't feel like women are equal to men and