ABSTRACT
Fitzjames Stephen on the Position of Women Millicent Garrett Fawcett was a writer, speaker and orator for women's suffrage. In this pamphlet, Millicent Fawcett counters James Fitzjames Stephen's argument that women did not deserve the suffrage. The manner in which the law is laid down on such questions, for instance, as the connection of Church and State, the social position of women, the Parliamentary suffrage, and the right of the State to persecute, strikes one as not only clear, but loud. We therefore propose to criticise only one portion of Mr. Stephen's book-that which refers to the position of women. Mr. Stephen's case is this: Men are stronger than women in every shape. In the same way we believe it to be entirely erroneous to say that when men are polite to women, and anxious to help them in all things in which the superior physical strength of a man is serviceable, they demand in return the submission of women.
