Volume 33, Number 1 · January 30, 1986
Women's Lot
By Martha C. Nussbaum
Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Woman
by Jane Roland Martin
Yale University Press, 218 pp., $21.50
Three Spartan women were being sold as slaves. Their captors asked them what they had learned to do. The first replied, 'How to manage a household well.' The second said, 'How to be loyal.' The third said, 'How to be free.'[1]
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