tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11218059.post111981866752256545..comments2023-04-29T03:24:45.969-07:00Comments on SFU English 369: Chick-Lit & Lad-Lit: Darwin's Writings on WomenDr. Stephen Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16765689515656935339noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11218059.post-1119922090111760112005-06-27T18:28:00.000-07:002005-06-27T18:28:00.000-07:00Aristotle on women (and slaves)from Poetics:There ...Aristotle on women (and slaves)<BR/><BR/>from <I>Poetics</I>:<BR/><BR/><I>There will be an element of character in the play, if (as has been observed) what a personage says or does reveals a certain moral purpose; and a good element of character, if the purpose so revealed is good. Such goodness is possible in every type of personage, even in a woman or a slave, though the one is perhaps an inferior, and the other a wholly worthless being.</I><BR/><BR/>I remember being quite shocked when I read this.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11011320315765471679noreply@blogger.com