SOCI 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Misogyny, Middle Ages
12 Feb 2019
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It changed to a degree during the renaissance. In the areas of education and the emergence of feminism/proto feminism among female writers and among men. They did have a renaissance to a degree and we can see important changes in concepts of women. One of the reasons why misogyny and concepts of women lasted so long was because of the cultural world and world in general was dominated by men. Men did most of the writing and then there was philosophical concepts that were brought forward to make arguments about the nature of women. In the middle ages, women were not educated and often they were illiterate. Once women did get an education sufficient enough to be able to write and an education in latin to give them access to high culture, they attempted to fight misogynist ideas. Hildegarde was a visionary woman who started having visions about god and women when she was very young.
