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What does it mean?
Honour is portrayed as a male inherited concept that women historically did not possess.
In plain terms
Honour was seen as a man's thing that women did not have.
What can you take from it?
Historical concepts of honor often excluded women.

Where it applies

  • historical analysis
  • gender studies
  • social critique

Putting it to work

  • examine historical biases
  • question tradition

Questions to consider

  • What values were denied to women historically?
  • How have definitions of honor changed?

Another view

Women certainly possessed their own forms of honor and integrity.

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