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Protagoras comments on Open thread, July 29-August 4, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Protagoras 12 August 2013 12:30:08AM 0 points [-]

Vindication of the Rights of Women was by Mary Wollstonecraft, and from well before Mill wrote The Subjection of Women. Still, Mill's views were certainly, as you say, radical for his time (and also more radical than those in Wollstonecraft's essay, if I recall it at all accurately).