在《妇女的屈从地位》中，作者对女权问题的深切关怀表现得淋漓尽致。作者确认规范两性之间的社会关系的原则——一个性别法定地从属于另一性别——其本身是错误的,而且现在成了人类进步的主要障碍之一。作者认为这个原则应代之以完全平等的原则,不承认一方享有权力或特权,也不承认另一方无资格。 In seeking to explain his opinions on a timeless subject;the relations between the sexes;John Stuart Mill admits that he has undertaken an arduous task. For "there are so many causes tending to make the feelings connected with this subject the most intense and most deeply-rooted of all those which gather round and protect old institutions and customs, that we need not wonder to find them as yet less undermined and loosened than any of the rest by the progress of the great modern spiritual and social transition."