# Tyranny of Custom and Feeling in The Subjection of Women

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

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.

## Where it surfaces

- [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_subjection_of_women_se/chapters/iii): 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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