{"id":245,"date":"2017-03-26T14:43:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=245"},"modified":"2017-03-26T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T18:43:08","slug":"marlowe-and-internalized-misogyny-in-elizabethan-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/early-modern-pornography\/marlowe-and-internalized-misogyny-in-elizabethan-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlowe and Internalized Misogyny in Elizabethan England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though I know Marlowe&#8217;s lines in\u00a0<em>Hero and Leander<\/em> reflect the conventional social wisdom of his time, I found myself pretty bothered by some of the generalizations he made about women in this poem, and in his characterization of Hero herself. He presents Hero as a stereotypical &#8220;tease,&#8221; apparently always saying &#8220;no&#8221; when she means &#8220;yes&#8221; and relishing in the blood of her failed suitors that stains her skirt. When juxtaposed with Marlowe&#8217;s abhorrence of the rapacious actions of Jove, I found myself a bit confused about Marlowe&#8217;s view of the role of a woman&#8217;s consent in sexual relations, as it seemed impossible for Hero, and all women, to have her answer of &#8220;no&#8221; taken seriously when a man asked, or attempted to take, something of her\u00a0body. Did anyone else get this vibe? And, if so, what does it say about women&#8217;s sexual agency in sixteenth century England?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I know Marlowe&#8217;s lines in\u00a0Hero and Leander reflect the conventional social wisdom of his time, I found myself pretty bothered by some of the generalizations he made about women in this poem, and in his characterization of Hero herself. He presents Hero as a stereotypical &#8220;tease,&#8221; apparently always saying &#8220;no&#8221; when she means &#8220;yes&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-modern-pornography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}