Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender

Rosalind Brown-Grant (University of Leeds)

Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
28 January 2000
Pages
244
ISBN
9780521641944

Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender

Rosalind Brown-Grant (University of Leeds)

Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la Cite des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes that dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cite in the context of Christine’s defense of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts. This study shows that Christine’s case for women nonetheless had an underlying unity in its insistence on the moral, if not the social, equality of the sexes.

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