07-12-2021, 09:05 PM
(07-12-2021, 08:43 PM)bi3mw wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Basically I believe that everything that could be thematized by men could also be taken up by women. Otherwise one would have to ask the other way round, what could be a typical male view on the visual language.
Of course - to be clear, my feeling is that the contents of the VM are "gender neutral", so for me the chances that women were involved would equal the ratio of female to male manuscript makers (this isn't 50/50, right?). Literacy alone is not enough, since the VM is a product that was actively made. So say that for example one in ten people involved in writing/drawing manuscripts is a woman, I would say that the chances of female involvement are this same 10%.
However, what makes this discussion interesting is the question if there are additional indications within the VM that it was made by women. I would say: not necessarily. But if one does say so, this entails certain assumptions and consequences.