The Book of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pizan
The Book of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pizan
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The Book of the City of Ladies

Author: Christine de Pizan

Narrator: Georgina Sutton

Abridged: 11 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2020

Synopsis

Shocked and distressed by a male writer's vilification of women, Christine de Pizan has a powerful dreamlike vision in which she is visited by three personified Virtues: Reason, Rectitude and Justice. They tell her she has been chosen to write a book which will be like a city, housing virtuous women and protecting them from feminist attack. Heroines past and present form the foundations of this city - biblical and mythical heroines, ruling queens, Christian saints, and inventors are among them. Partly myth, partly fact, The Book of the City of Ladies is an extraordinary, pioneering and impassioned defense of women that set out to shatter medieval misogynist cliches, and serve to instill self-worth in its female readers of the time.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christa

This is an amazing humanist text written in 1405. Through her discourse to explain the misconception of woman, Pizan elevates her argument beyond the literature of 20th century feminists. Where Friedan, Steinem, Hooks, etc. would outline the maladjustment and oppression of women, Pizan would argue t......more

Goodreads review by Caroline

In this book, written in 1405, the author is given examples (by Lady Reason, Lady Rectitude and Lady Justice)to help erect a 'city of ladies'. In part it is a metaphor of the city being built up of the reputations of great women, but it is also meant to be peopled with great and virtuous women too.......more

Goodreads review by Albus Eugene Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

«XXXVI. Contro quelli che dicono che non è bene che le donne apprendano le lettere.» Christine de Pizan (1365 – 1430) è tra le figure più interessanti e significative del panorama letterario francese tra XIV e XV secolo. Questo che ho avuto tra le mani è solo la versione ridotta (90 pagine), curat......more

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