The Subjection of Women
Audio only

The Subjection of Women

By John Stuart Mill
Michael Caine
Listen with Sir Michael Caine™ and 1,000+ voices
Length4h 44m

About this audiobook

"The Subjection of Women" is an essay published in 1869 by English philosopher, Member of Parliament, and political economist John Stuart Mill. He credits many of the ideas expressed in the essay to his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, who had actually published a more radical essay, "The Enfranchisement of Women", in 1851 with her daughter Helen Taylor. In his essay, Mill argues for female equality in a Victorian society that denied women many social and political rights. He also points out that while there may be physical differences between men and women, there is no evidence that they differ substantially in mental or moral capabilities. He regards gender inequality as part of an older social system in which matters were decided by use of force and makes a strong argument that modern society should operate on the basis of reason rather than force. Mill counters the argument that women have achieved less in the arts and sciences with the point that under oppressive conditions of inequality, women have not had the freedom to achieve their potential.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ 4.2 (17.5K)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon, LibraryThing, StoryGraph
GenrePsychology, History, Philosophy
Length4 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 7, 2019
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Chapter I
2Chapter II
3Chapter III
4Chapter IV

More from John Stuart Mill

What to Make of a Life
What to Make of a LifeJim Collins13h 31m4.4 (793)$33 · $0.00
Hour of the Heart
Hour of the HeartIrvin D. Yalom, Benjamin Yalom8h 19m4.6 (2.3K)$26 · $0.00
Braving the Truth
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m4.7 (359)$29 · $0.00
Level Up
Level UpRob Dial7h 42m4.6 (3.3K)$26 · $0.00
As a Jew
As a JewSarah Hurwitz8h 36m4.6 (1.2K)$26 · $0.00
Burn the Haystack
Burn the HaystackJennie Young, PhD9h 30m4.6 (543)$29 · $0.00
Woman and the New Race (Annotated)
Woman and the New Race (Annotated)Margaret Sanger6h 30m4.6 (1K)$1.99 · $0.00
Good Inside
Good InsideBecky Kennedy9h 55m4.5 (59.3K)$29 · $0.00
Du Bois: Essays
Du Bois: EssaysW.E.B. Du Bois6h 22m4.6 (1.5K)$1 · $0.00
The North American Indian (Illustrated Edition)
The North American Indian (Illustrated Edition)Edward S. Curtis, Frederick Webb Hodge5h 59m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Valley of the Birdtail
Valley of the BirdtailAndrew Stobo Sniderman, Douglas Sanderson10h 1m4.6 (2.4K)$29 · $0.00
Lies My Therapist Told Me
Lies My Therapist Told MeGreg E. Gifford9h 3m4.6 (503)$29 · $0.00
Disturbed in Their Nests
Disturbed in Their NestsAlephonsion Deng, Judy A. Bernstein11h 22m4.6 (595)$23 · $0.00
No Name in the Street
No Name in the StreetJames Baldwin5h4.5 (8.5K)$20 · $0.00
Magic Season
Magic SeasonWade Rouse6h 41m4.6 (855)$24 · $0.00
Consent Laid Bare
Consent Laid BareChanel Contos7h 11m4.5 (1.7K)$24 · $0.00
The Big Reveal
The Big RevealSasha Velour6h 15m4.5 (2.1K)$24 · $0.00
Pastoral Song
Pastoral SongJames Rebanks8h 35m4.5 (12K)$26 · $0.00
Sitting Pretty
Sitting PrettyRebekah Taussig7h 33m4.5 (18.9K)$26 · $0.00
Wholehearted Faith
Wholehearted FaithRachel Held Evans, Jeff Chu5h 45m4.5 (10.2K)$24 · $0.00
A Brief History of Intelligence
A Brief History of IntelligenceMax S. Bennett12h 18m4.6 (6.6K)$29 · $0.00
Ghosts of Hiroshima
Ghosts of HiroshimaCharles Pellegrino8h 59m4.5 (877)$23
The Daughter of Auschwitz
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m4.6 (16.7K)$26 · $0.00
Lily's Promise
Lily's PromiseLily Ebert, Dov Forman8h 54m4.6 (16.1K)$29 · $0.00
On Democracies and Death Cults
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m4.6 (6.5K)$29 · $0.00
Across the River
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m4.6 (927)$29 · $0.00
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and BeyondJohn Lyons12h 37m4.6 (1.4K)$33 · $0.00
Beyond
BeyondStephen Walker15h 39m4.6 (3.2K)$33 · $0.00
Kings and Pawns
Kings and PawnsHoward Bryant10h 9m4.6 (678)$29 · $0.00
No Escape
No EscapeNury Turkel9h 30m4.6 (809)$28 · $0.00
Jubal Stone: U.S. Marshal: Blood Trail To Hell: A Western Adventure Novel
Jubal Stone: U.S. Marshal: Blood Trail To Hell: A Western Adventure NovelCasey Nash3h 42m4.6 (3.2K)$18 · $0.00
Fall and Rise
Fall and RiseMitchell Zuckoff17h 23m4.6 (9.8K)$40 · $0.00
The Survivor
The SurvivorJosef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin9h 22m4.6 (2.5K)$29 · $0.00
Always Faithful
Always FaithfulThomas Schueman, Zainullah Zaki12h 12m4.6 (977)$29 · $0.00
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 (Annotated)
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 (Annotated)Alexis de Tocqueville17h 25m4.6 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
All the Gallant Men
All the Gallant MenDonald Stratton, Ken Gire5h 55m4.6 (11.8K)$24 · $0.00
Medgar and Myrlie
Medgar and MyrlieJoy-Ann Reid10h 52m4.5 (27.8K)$29 · $0.00
The History of the Peloponnesian War (Annotated)
The History of the Peloponnesian War (Annotated)Thucydides24h 3m4.6 (1.1K)$2 · $0.00
Where the Birds Never Sing
Where the Birds Never SingJack Sacco10h 31m4.6 (3.8K)$29 · $0.00
Serviceman J: The Untold Story of an NZSAS Soldier
Serviceman J: The Untold Story of an NZSAS SoldierJamie Pennell5h 51m4.6 (452)$24 · $0.00
Tâo Teh King
Tâo Teh KingLaozi2h 34m4.4 (230.9K)$2 · $0.00
Buddhist Boot Camp
Buddhist Boot CampTimber Hawkeye2h 39m4.4 (8.4K)$18 · $0.00
Enchiridion & The Discourses of Epictetus (Annotated)
Enchiridion & The Discourses of Epictetus (Annotated)Arrian Epictetus18h 9m4.4 (3.5K)$2 · $0.00
The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius AntoninusEmperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius5h 41m4.4 (1.8M)$1 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky23h 11m4.4 (1.3M)$12 · $0.00
Meditations
MeditationsMarcus Aurelius5h 52m4.4 (433.7K)$1 · $0.00
Everyday Dharma
Everyday DharmaSuneel Gupta5h 2m4.5 (761)$20 · $0.00
The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza")
The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza")Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche11h 37m4.4 (26.6K)$1 · $0.00
The Art of Living
The Art of LivingEpictetus, Sharon Lebell3h 16m4.4 (50.1K)$18 · $0.00
Sadhana: the realisation of life
Sadhana: the realisation of lifeRabindranath Tagore3h 49m4.4 (8.6K)$6 · $0.00
Sapiens
SapiensYuval Noah Harari15h 18m4.3 (1.4M)$33 · $0.00
You Belong
You BelongSebene Selassie8h 35m4.4 (2.7K)$26 · $0.00
The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata)
The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata)Anonymous2h 18m4.4 (3.2K)$2 · $0.00
Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer
Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social ReformerZhuangzi14h 42m4.4 (1.2K)$1 · $0.00
High-Risers
High-RisersBen Austen13h 33m4.4 (2.8K)$33 · $0.00
The Great Omission
The Great OmissionDallas Willard7h 45m4.4 (4K)$26 · $0.00
The Grand Inquisitor
The Grand InquisitorFyodor Dostoyevsky2h 24m4.3 (10.7K)$1 · $0.00
Praying with the Psalms
Praying with the PsalmsEugene H. Peterson7h 20m4.5 (312)$24 · $0.00
Right Story, Wrong Story
Right Story, Wrong StoryTyson Yunkaporta8h 46m4.5 (317)$29 · $0.00
Essays and Dialogues
Essays and DialoguesGiacomo Leopardi9h 24m4.4 (1.9K)$1 · $0.00

You may also like

Invisible Labor
Invisible LaborRachel Somerstein10h 34m4.2 (803)$29 · $0.00
Screaming on the Inside
Screaming on the InsideJessica Grose6h 30m3.8 (5.2K)$24 · $0.00
Your Art Will Save Your Life
Your Art Will Save Your LifeBeth Pickens2h 23m4.3 (1.6K)$15 · $0.00
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Annotated)
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Annotated)Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli12h 50m4.0 (2.9K)$2 · $0.00
Not a Day Care
Not a Day CareEverett Piper5h 57m4.1 (788)$20
Girl Gurl Grrrl
Girl Gurl GrrrlKenya Hunt5h 39m4.1 (1.8K)$24 · $0.00
Inverse Cowgirl
Inverse CowgirlAlicia Roth Weigel6h 31m4.1 (1.7K)$24 · $0.00
The Future of Capitalism
The Future of CapitalismPaul Collier9h 27m4.0 (4.2K)$7 · $0.00
A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's OwnVirginia Woolf5h 16m4.3 (335.6K)$2 · $0.00
The Subjection of Women
The Subjection of WomenJohn Stuart4h 44m4.1 (5.7K)$3.50 · $0.00
Read Dangerously
Read DangerouslyAzar Nafisi8h 29m4.1 (2.8K)$26 · $0.00
Speaking of Race
Speaking of RaceCeleste Headlee7h 54m4.4 (681)$26 · $0.00
Christians in a Cancel Culture
Christians in a Cancel CultureJoe Dallas6h 54m4.3 (444)$17 · $0.00
Peaceful Neighbor
Peaceful NeighborMichael G. Long8h4.1 (568)$20 · $0.00
The Moment
The MomentBakari Sellers4h 33m4.3 (329)$20 · $0.00
Grateful
GratefulDiana Butler Bass7h 51m4.1 (1.8K)$26 · $0.00
All the Rage
All the RageDarcy Lockman8h 53m4.2 (3.5K)$29 · $0.00
Broken
BrokenJessica Pryce8h 11m4.2 (564)$26 · $0.00
The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of Women
The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of WomenJohn Stuart Mill13h 32m4.3 (29)$2 · $0.00
Liberating Abortion
Liberating AbortionRenee Bracey Sherman, Regina Mahone14h 56m4.4 (144)$33 · $0.00