In this book Jane Roland Martin joins in conversation with five philosophers--Plato, Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft, Catharine Beecher, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman--about how women should be educated in an ideal society, and she draws out implications for the education of both sexes today.
"A timely and important contribution both to feminist theory and to the philosophy of education."--Carol Gilligan, Harvard University
"Fascinating. . . . The juxtaposition of views, together with Martin's critical comparisons, illuminates each account."--Martha Nussbaum, New York Review of...