WMST 2000 Lecture Notes - Courtly Love, List Of Civilisations In The Culture Series, Christina Hoff Sommers

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 2000
• Professor: Martina Meyer

Document Summary

Courtly love - passive (everything is the other person"s job), waiting for her suitor. she can"t really say no to someone offering her attention and devotion. Obscures the patriarchal character of western culture. Hugo beigel - ^ reinforces the divide because it attributes impossible virtues to women, takes away your humanity (not a full person, but rather an iconic image), and then worshipped from afar. What ends up happening with courtly love, you are confirming women in a narrow and con-scribed sphere of behaviour. Any moral dubiousness is not the violation of the sanctity of marriage so much as the other man"s affront to the husband"s ownership of the wife. Courtly love places women on a pedestal (simply for the man to worship) She is not an individual because any analysis of her stops at her beauty. When women do act of their own agency, they are mischievous" or manipulative".