The Enfranchisement of Women

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The Enfranchisement of Women is an influential 1851 feminist essay advocating for women's political rights and legal equality, often associated with early liberal feminism in Britain.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf essay
feminist essay
political writing
advocatesFor equal civil rights for women
reform of marriage laws
reform of property laws
women's legal equality
women's political rights
women's suffrage
associatedWith British women's rights movement
Victorian feminism
early liberal feminism in Britain
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
genre feminist literature
political philosophy
historicalPeriod Victorian era
impact considered an influential early feminist text
influenced British suffrage discourse
later feminist political thought
language English
mainSubject gender equality
legal equality
liberal feminism
women's rights
women's suffrage
movement first-wave feminism
liberal feminism
placeInCanon part of early British liberal feminist canon
positionOnLaw calls for equal legal status of women and men
positionOnPolitics argues women should participate in political life
positionOnSuffrage supports extension of the franchise to women
publicationCentury 19th century
publicationYear 1851

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Harriet Taylor Mill
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