[Magdalen] praising the Liberal Arts

[ME Michaud]

And I remember that in cultures where dowries are expected
boy babies are preferred, leading to a skewed ratio of men and women
in that society. And it’s not been limited to India and Asia. Poor
Elizabeth
Bennet, one of five sisters, suffered, too.

Part of the plot of The Bostonians turns on the astonishing arrival of a
young and good-looking survivor of the Civil War.
In Little Women, all men are absent except for the very old and very young.
One of the March girls finds a husband in Europe, another marries when
her beau returns safely from his deployment.
-M

On Saturday, June 2, 2018, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember reading somewhere that the only society routinely practicing
> polyandry is one so miserable that they sacrifice female babies, leaving a
> deficit when the children grow up. Men "share" a woman but it's not as
> though she has any social or economic  power whatsoever.  Somewhere in
> Southern Asia?
>
> We don;t have to go back so far to find shortages of men due to losses in
> war...
> Human being are a sad lot
>
>