Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on sexual equality : historical, methodological and philosophical issues / by Vincent Guillin.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

xii, 367 pages ; 25 cm.

Introduction -- Comte and Mill on sexual equality : context and problems -- The female brain and the subjection of women : biology, phrenology and sexual equality -- The phrenological controversy -- The explanation of moral phenomena : Comte and Mill on the architectonics of the moral sciences -- A never ending subjection? : Comte, Mill, and the sociological argument against sexual equality -- The ethological fiasco : the methodological shortcomings of the Millian science of the formation of character -- How to discover one's nature : Mill's argument for emancipation in the Subjection of women -- Conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.