Wright traces a real debate through the literature: Homer’s women with standing, the hostility of Hesiod and Semonides, the seclusion of classical Athens, Euripides putting the case for women on stage, Aristophanes making comedy of their rule, Plato admitting them to the guardianship and Aristotle closing the door again.
Two thousand years before the word existed, the Greeks were already arguing. Download the free EPUB.