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[Jim heartfield]

In message <37767D41.5CE87AA at mail.ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox
<cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes
>Didn't someone back in the early 19th century -- perhaps Fourier,
>claim that one could judge a society by the way it treated its castoffs,
>which would include criminals as well as various specially oppressed
>groups, etc. etc.? I have a vague, probably false, recollection of
>something like this. Can anyone remember anything more precise?

I think Fourier said that you can judge a society by the position of
women in that society.

-- 
Jim heartfield