In his Autobiography, John Stuart Mill tells us that though his conviction regarding the equality of the sexes was a result of his earliest engagements with political subjects, it remained an abstract idea before his relationship with Harriet Taylor (later Taylor Mill) began. Crediting her as the author of “all that was best” in his writings, Mill's praise of his wife has not been well received by many of his readers, and scholars have long questioned her capacities as an intellectual and as a political thinker. I argue that such doubts reflect a narrow standard for adjudicating Taylor Mill's intellectual worth, and what counts as intellectual labor more broadly. Examining Taylor Mill's own writings in fact illuminates and challenges the gendering practices that have sustained scholarly interrogations of Taylor Mill and of her relationship to JS Mill. I make this case first by drawing attention to her “experiential politics” as a credible source of intellectual scholarship, and second by raising questions about the gendered aspects of how intellectual labor has been defined and evaluated in studies of the canon.

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哈丽特·泰勒·米尔（Harriet Taylor Mill）的“挚爱和沮丧”记忆：对佳能中性别和知识劳动的反思

在他的自传中，约翰·斯图尔特·米尔（John Stuart Mill）告诉我们，尽管他对性别平等的信念是他与政治主体最早接触的结果，但在他与哈丽特·泰勒（Harriet Taylor）（后来的泰勒·米尔（Taylor Mill））建立关系之前，这仍然是一个抽象的想法。密尔称赞她是“一切都好”的作者，但米勒对妻子的称赞并没有得到许多读者的好评，学者们长期以来一直质疑她作为知识分子和政治思想家的能力。我认为，这种怀疑反映了裁定泰勒·米尔（Taylor Mill）的智力价值的狭窄标准，以及更广泛地视为智力劳动的标准。审视泰勒·米尔自己的著作，实际上阐明并挑战了对泰勒·米尔及其与JS·米尔的关系进行学术性质疑的性别歧视做法。