Do the souls of women matter in Le Morte d'Arthur?

[toddhoffious]

You can say Guinevere is empty headed and hasn't learned, but as far as I can tell there's no effort at all to teach the women anything in the book.

The whole machinery of heaven conspires to guide a few privileged knights to a grail state. Not so for the women. So how are they supposed to grow and change as people?

 

[Jim Deutch]

The whole machinery of heaven conspires to guide a few privileged knights to a grail state. Not so for the women. So how are they supposed to grow and change as people?

Are they even people? Sorceresses (necrophiliacs or not) seem like cardboard villains, for the most part. Morgause got her head chopped off with no consequences to the perpetrators. Igrain and La Belle Isoud and Guenever at least have occasional speaking parts, but if they experienced growth how would we even know?

Maybe the simple answer is that Mallory just isn't interested in the women. We get just the barest hints of women's culture, but it's a terra incognita to us.