Comte, Mill and the Women’s Issue

Comte, Mill et la question des femmes

Annette Disselkamp () and Delphine Pouchain ()
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Annette Disselkamp: CLERSÉ - Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Delphine Pouchain: CLERSÉ - Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IEP Lille - Sciences Po Lille - Institut d'études politiques de Lille

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Abstract: The opposition Comte-Mill on the place of women is well known, between Comte, seen as patriarchal, and Mill presented as egalitarian. Yet, the authors agree on a global rejection of married women's work. We return here to the terms of this debate, showing that theirs positions reflect a controversy concerning the innate or acquired character of the characteristics commonly attributed to men and women. The rejection of married women's work reveals a certain criticism of political economy.

Keywords: John Stuart Mill; Auguste Comte; Harriet Taylor; Labour; Political economy; travail; économie politique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-07-03
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Published in Revue d'histoire de la pensée économique, 2019, Revue d’histoire de la pensée économique 2019 – 1, n° 7, 2019 – 1 (n° 7), pp.113-139. ⟨10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09425-8.p.0113⟩

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DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09425-8.p.0113

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