Western Civilization I / Unit 13 WC1 1220 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Christine de Pizan and the City of Ladies
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The idea
Christine de Pizan, thirteen sixty-four to fourteen thirty, educated like elite men at the French court, wrote The Book of the City of Ladies: a catalogue of moral, capable women and an argument that men's pride and denial of education caused women's condition.
In practice
The first truly feminist work, the anchor says.
Where people slip
Elite men read her. The argument was heard, not adopted.
Your place on the trail
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