For this Unit VI, I will discuss two articles, Martha A. Brozyna “Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages” and the reading selections “Free Women and Slaves” and “The Canon of Feminine Beauty Gender” written by Abu Al-Jahiz. In order to analyze how the two articles perceived the parameters of sexual aesthetics. I will cease my conclusion via using the feminist article, “Wiles of Women,” disagreeing why? Some would argue that men are the sound of prejudice in determining the feminine beauty and excluding women perspectives upon this matter. Throughout the readings, the authors argue that men are sound judges of the feminine beauty. Such arguments are held within a particular patriarchal context at which emphasized the woman's body and her physical…show more content… Both articles discuss the use of attractive female and slaves. Slave women are said to have more success in relationships with men in comparison to free women who neglected the didactic upon feminine beauty, or what men desire in a woman. (Brozyna) This statement goes on showing how slave women had undergone a lot of public and private sexual practices, pleasing their masters such as in the case of Muawiyah and his slave girl. Al-Jahiz manual manuscript had revealed notifications that contributed women to seem beautiful whether with the aim of their future male purchasers or in the interim of examining or deciding the best choice. Furthermore, the article provides an illustrative manual that sustains the buyer to purchase a female slave basing on physical means (Brozyna) and focuses on various agencies of women from different nations and ethnicity of which sheds light on whom rendered better sexual satisfaction, services, and a plausible company. (Ibn…show more content… He states that women should be more regarded than just their physical beauty because they “inspire self-sacrifice and require protection.” Al-Jahiz as well mentioned in his reference to Virgin Mary that “God created a child out of a woman without the intervention of any man.” (Brozyna) However, Al-Jahiz as translated by Brozyna subtly acknowledges that beauty is the eyes of the beholder, both men and women could be the sound judges through his quote, “ For the quality of beauty is too fine and delicate a thing to be appreciated by just anyone whose eye falls on it.” However, the article is still held from a male point of view as
