{"612919":{"#nid":"612919","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Were women ever sacred? Some medieval and modern men would like us to think so","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/utz\u0022\u003ERichard Utz\u003C\/a\u003E, Chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, recently wrote an article for Medivalists.net entitled \u0026quot;Were women ever sacred? Some medieval and modern men would like us to think so.\u0026quot; In his article, Utz analyzes recent media discussions around chivalry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn her October 7, 2018, article for the Washington Post, \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2018\/10\/08\/chivalry-isnt-dead-it-should-be\/?noredirect=on\u0026amp;utm_term=.0f0692fc3cc2\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChivalry isn\u0026rsquo;t dead. But it should be\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026rdquo; Amy Kaufman questions the use of medievalist values like \u0026ldquo;chivalry\u0026rdquo; in defense of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh during his contentious confirmation process for his appointment on the U.S. Supreme Court. Kaufman concludes that chivalry, always more literary than real, was not only a \u0026ldquo;protection racket\u0026rdquo; because it obliges women to rely on men to protect them from other men, but also only ever protected certain (noble) women. Upon reading her article, I remembered that I had heard similar medievalist statements before, and directly from the White House.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the full article \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.medievalists.net\/2018\/10\/were-women-ever-sacred\/\u0022\u003Ehere.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2018-10-17 19:35:58","changed_gmt":"2018-10-17 19:35:58","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"GEAR UP","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.medievalists.net\/2018\/10\/were-women-ever-sacred\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"404111":{"id":"404111","type":"image","title":"Richard Utz","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1539181964","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:32:44","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication Chair Richard Utz","file":{"fid":"75989","name":"s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":29255,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg?itok=dSo1uzO5"}}},"media_ids":["404111"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"33431","name":"Richard Utz"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}