Gender equality shouldn’t mean gynocentrism. Gender equality is for men, too. Ignoring injustices against men is sexist.
In his love odes, Horace complacently accepts gendered war, adultery punishment, and sexual opportunity. Lydia exemplifies Roman gender privilege. … Read the post Horace gender-complacent in conviviality with men
In his Dialogus miraculorum, Caesarius of Heisterbach recognized gender equality in sexual harassment. That’s superior medieval understanding. … Read the post gender equality & sexual harassment in medieval understanding
Following Virgil, medieval authors associated bees with chastity & the Virgin Mary. Male workers bees doing sex work thus came to be disparaged as drones. … Read the post literary history made male worker bees into drones
Academic literary studies is very hostile to non-feminist approaches and rife with anti-meninism. Beware! Look for imagination & creativity elsewhere. … Read the post the unbelievable anti-meninism of today’s elite literary scholars
Systemic sexism in medieval love poetry can be overcome with careful literary analysis and classical parrhesia, aided by Galician-Portuguese cantigas. … Read the post literary progress: perceiving systemic sexism in medieval love poetry