WMST 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cecilia Gallerani, Acen Razvi, Pirkei Avot

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

Document Summary

Represents women in an equally authoritative position as men but are they equal to their male counterparts or are masculine women a reinforcemenjt of a patriarchal outlook: women = must adopt attribute of men. Just another way of patriarchy establishing its power: equality does not equal sexlessness as there will always to be difference. Leonardo: renegade, though about things in a way that were very different from typical social attitudes. View of female = abnormal in patriarchy of his day: women understand individuality as an intelligent being, biologically as an equal half, philosophically: acen. Women were not socially or politically empowered but da vinci provided this voice. Kinds of portraits typically profile, but in this case women is looking forward (3/4 profile like men) Women is outside in world (women normally depicted in frames/rooms, organized to speak abot their obedience. On back: (cid:862)she ador(cid:374)s her (cid:448)i, not about beauty, rather about a real person with qualities that are beautiful.