ABSTRACT
In Book V of the Republic, Plato argues that women as well as men can be rulers of the 'Just State' and, on the grounds that identical roles require identical education, he makes the radical proposal that the female guardians of the state be given the same education as their male counterparts, indeed that the two sexes be educated together (1974: 113-19). In Book V of Emile, Rousseau prescribes for the girl Sophie - who represents Everygirl, just as the boy Emile, whose wife she is to be, represents Everyboy - an education separate and different from Emile's (1979).
