Hit upon both in “A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman” by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792) and “The Subjection Of Women” by John Stuart Mill (1870) is the idea of the attractiveness of women—how it has, historically, been the aim in life of women and on which their worth is solely measured (which, naturally, perpetuate each other). What I find interesting is comparing ideas of attraction in these historical perspectives to today’s standards.

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