What an excellent summary of that pivotal battle and eventual world-first win for women, democratic politics and human civilization. I recall reading about one prominent NZ businessman of the day lamenting that they now had to put up with women's suffrage just as they had to suffer the measles. 🙄 The men behind the trans assault on our rights today are cut from that same 'women are annoying creatures men must suffer' cloth. I'll be there be there in my suffrage whites on Saturday, for sure. Just one point for the record, JS Mill's writings and activism for women were substantially shaped by his wife Harriet Taylor Mill. In his autobiography he wrote: “Not only during the years of our married life, but during many of the years of confidential friendship which preceded it, all my published writings were as much my wife’s work as mine; her share in them constantly increasing as years advanced.” And '“The Enfranchisement of Women,” that was published in The Westminster Review in 1851, was said to be 'authored primarily or even solely by Taylor Mill', though largely credited to him. An all too familiar story in this bloody battle of the sexes, though Mill did at least give more credit to his wife than did other celebrated men, like Orwell and Einstein, whose wives we are now learning were substantially responsible for their best work.
Good info - thanks! Seems like a book needs to be written - if it hasn't already - about the women who made history for men, but never made it into history books.
Some books of the sort have been written, including 'Wifedom' by Aussie Anna Funder (2023) about how Orwell's wife Eileen did most of the creative work for Animal Farm, as well as editing and typing all his books (except 1984, written after her death). But these books do little to correct the man's story about which there continue to be so many more books published, due in large part to the fact that men have very little interest in women's lives, while women generally have more natural interest in men's lives as part of our greater interest in humanity in general.
What an excellent summary of that pivotal battle and eventual world-first win for women, democratic politics and human civilization. I recall reading about one prominent NZ businessman of the day lamenting that they now had to put up with women's suffrage just as they had to suffer the measles. 🙄 The men behind the trans assault on our rights today are cut from that same 'women are annoying creatures men must suffer' cloth. I'll be there be there in my suffrage whites on Saturday, for sure. Just one point for the record, JS Mill's writings and activism for women were substantially shaped by his wife Harriet Taylor Mill. In his autobiography he wrote: “Not only during the years of our married life, but during many of the years of confidential friendship which preceded it, all my published writings were as much my wife’s work as mine; her share in them constantly increasing as years advanced.” And '“The Enfranchisement of Women,” that was published in The Westminster Review in 1851, was said to be 'authored primarily or even solely by Taylor Mill', though largely credited to him. An all too familiar story in this bloody battle of the sexes, though Mill did at least give more credit to his wife than did other celebrated men, like Orwell and Einstein, whose wives we are now learning were substantially responsible for their best work.
Good info - thanks! Seems like a book needs to be written - if it hasn't already - about the women who made history for men, but never made it into history books.
Some books of the sort have been written, including 'Wifedom' by Aussie Anna Funder (2023) about how Orwell's wife Eileen did most of the creative work for Animal Farm, as well as editing and typing all his books (except 1984, written after her death). But these books do little to correct the man's story about which there continue to be so many more books published, due in large part to the fact that men have very little interest in women's lives, while women generally have more natural interest in men's lives as part of our greater interest in humanity in general.
I read Wifedom - what an eye-opener, and, as you say, just all taken for granted as part of the services supplied to men by women.