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...class suppression and psychological repression. The established church had slipped in moral authority. Even sex was under a less terrible taboo than has sometimes been assumed. That has been proven by recent explorations of the pervasiveness of Victorian pornography (albeit hidden). Mill was preaching liberty to the converted, Hirnmelfarb argues, except in the area of women's liberation. In his essay The Subjection of Women, Mill protested that "the social subordination of women" stood out as "an isolated fact in modern social institutions; a solitary breach of what has become their fundamental law." Mill wrote On Liberty, Himmelfarb submits...
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