Bernice

History

3 May, 10:53

Read the excerpt from Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller. A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. The female Greek, of our day, is as much in the street as the male to cry, "What news?" We doubt not it was the same in Athens of old. The women, shut out from the market-place, made up for it at the religious festivals. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish. How does Fuller develop an argument for women's rights and education? By describing women's religious roles by insisting that every human mind needs fuel by explaining the significance of trading at Greek markets by suggesting that women can learn without leaving their homes