In Wife of Bath’s Prologue & Tale, criminal justice is a pretext for promoting men’s subordination to women. Men deserve better than laughing with Jankyn. … Read the post Wife of Bath, criminal justice & men’s subordination to women
Criminalizing seduction has meant criminalizing only men seducing women. It reflects dominant public practices of bodily dispossessing men. … Read the post criminalizing seduction: the crime of men seducing women
Socrates, a radical critic of Athenian society, apparently was reluctant to criticize his own wife Xanthippe abusing him. … Read the post Xanthippe, Socrates & rationalizing wives' abusive behavior
Honorat Bovet’s L’apparicion Maistre Jehan de Meun critiques medieval jail policy through voices of a physician, a Jew, a Muslim, and a Dominican friar. … Read the post Honorat Bovet on exploiting prisoners in medieval jails
Islamic learning and poetic guile saved ibn Rawahah from being a domestic violence homicide victim. With laughter the Prophet enjoyed that tale. … Read the post Ibn Rawahah avoided domestic violence with Islamic learning