Book VII, Chapter 9
On the condition of women under different governments.
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From The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu
The condition of women correlates with the form of government: free in moderate states, enclosed and subordinated under despotism; polygamy is treated as a feature of climate and despotic society.
Book XVI
Books on domestic slavery and the relations of polygamy to climate.
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