The Politics of Women's Bodies Reflections on Plato

Abstract

children but taking no part in preparations for war, that is, in politics in the broad sense, in debate over public issues. I can only speak as I think. A legislator should be thorough, not halfhearted; he must not, after making regulations for the male sex, leave the other to the enjoyment of an existence of uncontrolled luxury and expense, and so endow his society with a mere half of a thoroughly felicitous life in place of the whole.