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The "Key Issues" series aims to make available the contemporary responses that met important books and debates on their first appearance. These take the form of journal articles, book extracts, public letters, sermons and pamphlets which provides an insight into the historical relevance and the social and political context in which a publication or particular topic emerged. Each volume brings together bring together some of the key responses to the works. Although written by a man, Mill's "Subjection of Women" is often regarded as one of the landmarks of British feminism. He observes that half the population are denied the most elementary legal and political rights. This work is a protest against the injustices of existing British institutions and a plea for political, legal and educational reforms. This volume features a collection of responses to his polemical work, many of them being women intellectuals of the period.