On the necessity for gender equality: Anna Doyle Wheeler and William Thompson and 'Equality in Community'

Title: On the necessity for gender equality: Anna Doyle Wheeler and William Thompson and 'Equality in Community'
Creator: Jose, Jim W.
Relation: Social Alternatives Vol. 34, Issue 1, p. 34-38
Relation: http://www.socialalternatives.com/issues/cosmopolitanism
Publisher: Social Alternatives
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: A genuine community requires equality among its citizens. In 1825 Anna Doyle Wheeler and William Thompson mounted a strong refutation of James Mill's argument against the enfranchisement of women in his Essay on Government. There was no rational basis for the subordination of women, but under the individualist dispensation of classical liberalism, marriage was tantamount to white slavery. Against the prevailing individualism they advocated cooperative socialism. Their work had implications for cosmopolitanism as they argued for a radical restructuring of society on the basis of full gender equality in the workplace and the home. In their view, this was the necessary prerequisite for all other forms of equality and the realisation of a free and just society.
Subject: gender equality; Anna Doyle Wheeler; William Thompson; women
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1339982
Identifier: uon:28379
Identifier: ISSN:0155-0306
Language: eng
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