Price: ₹700
Pages: 444
ISBN: 9780460871488
The final book in the series discusses the education of Sophie, who is Emile's betrothed. At a time when girls and women were generally denied a formal education, Rousseau's relatively short discussion - which praises the status quo and declares that women must be 'passive and weak' provoked a strong condemnatory reaction among female members of the European intelligentsia.