As to honour - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
About this quote
- 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
Putting it to work
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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