First, the students studied the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea through a translation of Ovid's « Metamorphoses » and a painting, "Pygmalion and Galatea" by Jean-Léon Gérôme. This myth tells the story of a king who despises women, sculpts the most beautiful woman he can imagine who is to represent his vision of the perfect woman, he gives her the name of Galatea, falls in love with her but becomes mad and unhappy at the thought of this impossible love ; in despair, he begs the goddess Aphrodite to send him a woman as beautiful and as pure as Galatea ; the goddess, touched by his prayers and the beauty of his work, gives life to the statue. This myth helps us to understand how human beings often search for and shape an unattainable love ideal throughout their lives.

Then they read an article written by a French academician Bruno Rigolt : "La femme comme objet de consommation" (women as objects of consumption), which, explains, from Simone de Beauvoir's analyses, how myths have enabled patriarchal civilisations to maintain the status of women as objects and consumable goods.

 

The students created a powerpoint in which they collected 10 pictures illustrating 10 objects to which women are compared

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