# Legal Subordination of Women in The Subjection of Women

> Theme guide for The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill.

The book argues that the legal and social system that subordinates women to men is fundamentally unjust, comparing it to slavery and calling for its replacement with perfect equality.

## Where it surfaces

- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_subjection_of_women_se/chapters/i): Mill argues that the legal inequality of women originates from brute force, not reason or experience.
- [Chapter II: The Marriage Contract and Legal Subordination](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_subjection_of_women_se/chapters/ii): Mill details how the marriage contract legally subordinates wives to husbands, making them bond-servants with no independent rights.

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