Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women

Description

"Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cite des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereo-types which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cite in the context of Christine's defence 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."--Jacket.

First Sentence

In order to undertake a defence of women against the misogynist tradition and to construct an authoritative discursive position from which to mount such a defence, Christine de Pizan first had to take a stand against the text which, by end of the fourteenth century, had firmly established itself as the vernacular authority on misogyny: Jean de Meung's Rose.

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Other Editions

• Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)HardcoverCambridge University Press2000-01-28
• Christine de Pizan and the moral defence of womenCambridge University Press1999-01-01
• Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of WomenPaperbackCambridge University Press2003-09-18
• Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of WomenCambridge University Press2004-01-01