ABSTRACT
When the proverb says: ‘Man is the lamp of the outside and woman the lamp of the inside,’ it is to be understood that man is the true light, that of the day, and woman the light of the darkness, the dark light; moreover she is, of course, to the moon what man is to the sun…. One is not justified in saying that the woman is locked up in the house unless one also observes that the man is kept out of it, at least during the day. As soon as the sun has risen he must…be in the fields or at the assembly house…. The man who stays too long in the house during the day is either suspect or ridiculous.
