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The Book of the City of Ladies Christine de Pizan
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Christine de Pizan set out to disprove masculine myths and within the context of her time her thought was revolutionary. Wednesday, 3 April 2013 at 08:57. In 1405 she published The Book of the City of Ladies, which chronicles the value and importance of the contributions of various women to society. How do they view male and female roles? The Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics) book download. I hope you've all been able to find copies of the book and are enjoying it. Christine de Pisan's The Book of the City of Ladies 1405. In The Book of the City of Ladies (Livre de la cité des dames)(1404) she created a utopian world where women had power and control and proved by logic that many of the negative myths regarding the female sex were false. The Book of the City of Ladies was first published in 1410 by Christine de Pizan, a widow who was rare among women of that day in that she made her living exclusively from her literary endeavours. How are they alike and how are they different? So she constructed her own foremothers for company and counsel—Lady Reason, Lady Justice and Lady Rectitude—in The Book of the City of Ladies. Compare and contrast Christine de Pizan's writings with Castiliogne's. Christine de Pizan was the first Western woman to write about women's history in 1405. Writer of lyrical poetry and of the polemic and equally pioneering "The Book of the City of Ladies": "I had to accept their unfavorable opinion." ----------------------------------------------------- [From the opening. I have been having a great time with Christine! Download The Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics) ; The Book of the City of Ladies ( Penguin Classics ) book downl . She is best known as the author of The Book of the City of Ladies, which she wrote to combat existing ideas about women's nature.