Book of the City of Ladies

Name: Book of the City of Ladies
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ISBN: 9780140446890

ISBN-10: 0140446893

ISBN-13: 9780140446890

Edition: 1999

Authors: Christine de Pizan, Rosalind Brown-Grant, Christine de Pizan, Christine de Pizan

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'Philosophers, poets and orators too numerous to mention all speak with one voice and are unanimous in their view that female nature is wholly given up to vice.' It was this misogynist consensus that Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430), France's first professional woman of letters, confronted head-on in the City of Ladies. Here, with the help of Reason, Rectitude and Justice, Christine constructs an allegorical city in which to defend womankind, using examples of female virtue and achievement both from the past and her own day as the stones with which to build the city's walls and towers. A key text in the history of feminism, this book provides powerful, positive images of women and also…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.80" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English