# How does The Subjection of Women develop the theme of Tyranny of Custom and Feeling?

> The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

## Answer

The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill develops Tyranny of Custom and Feeling across the chapters the companion marks for this theme.

Mill identifies deeply rooted custom and emotional prejudice, rather than rational argument, as the main obstacles to women's emancipation, noting that such feelings resist logical refutation.

Mill criticizes the custom of excluding women from public life and the pretense that it is for their own good, which he sees as a form of tyranny.

## Evidence

- [iii](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_subjection_of_women_se/chapters/iii.md): Mill criticizes the custom of excluding women from public life and the pretense that it is for their own good, which he sees as a form of tyranny.

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