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source: mastodon
date: 2021-09-14 15:07:34.23 +00
title: "Mastodon post from September 14, 2021, 106930638306023147"
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had the time to read "Enfranchisement of Women," by Harriett Stuart Mill (1851) this morning (having skipped the Thoreau essay before it). lots of great revolutionary demands 69 years before the nineteenth amendment was ratified in the US. ( [https://archive.org/details/enfranchisemento00mill/page/n3/mode/2up](https://archive.org/details/enfranchisemento00mill/page/n3/mode/2up))



“We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion, or any individual for another individual, what is and what is not their “proper sphere.” The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to.”

otoh, ehhhhh


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