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thierry30
thierry30
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Is Morte Darthur a sexist text?

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Posted by thierry30 on Tuesday March 13, 2007 at 11:30 AM and tagged with by, le morte d'arthur.

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  1. gbeatty Teacher
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    If you are looking for a yes/no answer, then the answer is yes.

    However, it's not that useful to consider a work from this period this way. Quite literally just about all works written in this period would be considered sexist by modern standards. (Probably all; I’m just being safe here by saying "just about all.") Therefore, singling this one out to label as sexist isn't that useful. It would be more useful to ask how the larger tradition of courtly love is sexist, how it served men and women, and how it limited them.

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    Posted by gbeatty on Tuesday March 13, 2007 at 4:46 PM