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Quotation from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
“the almost total disappearance of "hysterics" and fainting fits, since they have gone out of fashion”
The Subjection of Women, Chapter III (Project Gutenberg text (1869 first edition))
Mill's evidence that much of the supposed nervous weakness of women is the result of cultivation and custom.
Citation: "the almost total disappearance of "hysterics" and fainting fits, since they have gone out of fashion" — John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women, Chapter III (Project Gutenberg text (1869 first edition)). (id the-subjection-of-women-q7)
Portrait: John Stuart Mill by London Stereoscopic Company, c1870, London Stereoscopic Company, Public domain.
