![]() ![]() While this city is being erected, Christine poses questions to each of the three ladies about the claims and stereotypes made about women by scholarly men. ![]() ![]() These goddesses ask her, through her reason and her writing, to build for them an allegorical city of ladies to which they will invite women of intelligence and virtue from all over the world to come and live, with the Virgin Mary as their queen. The City of Ladies centers on Christine, who is pondering the misogyny of the literary world until she is visited by three otherworldly (and metaphorical) ladies: Reason, Rectitude, and Justice. However, as de Pizan makes clear, she is only one among an illustrious group of learned women who are as pious and virtuous as they are intelligent. Her education, to which this text will attest, is a startling accomplishment at a time when the world was largely illiterate. Christine de Pizan (1365-1430) was one of the first women in Europe to earn a living as a writer. The City of Ladies is heralded as being one of the earliest and most important works of feminist literature. The City of Ladies (Penguin Great Ideas) by Christine de Pizan The City of Ladies (Penguin Great Ideas) by Christine de Pizan - book review ![]()
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