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Why Patronize Feminists? A Reply to Stove on Mill
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 January 2009
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1 ‘The Subjection of John Stuart Mill’, Philosophy 68, 1993, pp. 5–13Google Scholar. All references in the text are to this article.
2 (London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1874).
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7 Warnock, Mary's introduction to the Fontana (London, 1962)Google Scholar edition of Utilitarianism is the standard source for an unorthodox—but no less plausible for that—view of what Mill thought the relation was between ‘desired’ and ‘desirable’ (25–27).
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