Telling Women to Shut Up
Oct 12, 2018
2 minutes
Julia B. Chan and Maddie Oatman
~Eighth Century B.C. In The Odyssey, Odysseus’ son Telemachus tells his mother, Penelope, “Go back up into your quarters. Speech will be the business of men.”
After Caia Afrania, a Roman senator’s wife, insists she be allowed to represent others before the Roman magistrate—unheard of at the time—male writer Valerius Maximus describes her voice as an “unnatural yapping” and a “bark.”
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