From Subjugation to Subjection- A Study of J.S. Mill's Feminist Text

Abstract

"Feminism" is not a new concept but the context in which it existed in the past has multiplied by passing through various levels of visions and revisions. It is a movement a revolution and an ideology. Women were considered inferior and incapable of doing anything rational or intellectual. They shouldered the responsibilities of wives and mothers always sacrificing their needs and desires, hankering for mental as well as physical freedom. They were attributed with the traits like emotional, weak, timid, passive and conventional. They were subjugated physically, economically and politically.