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CHRISTINE DE PIZAN AND THE MORAL DEFENCE OF WOMEN
READING BEYOND GENDER |
| By: |
Rosalind Brown-Grant, Alastair Minnis, Patrick Boyde |
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Hardback |
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£90.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521641942 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521641944 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 January, 2000 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature No.40 |
| Pages: |
244 |
| Description: |
The first book-length study of a seminal 'feminist' text from the Middle Ages. |
| Synopsis: |
Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cite des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes 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. Arguing that Christine tailored her critique of misogyny according to the genre in which she was writing and the audience she was addressing, 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. Whilst Christine may not have been a radical in modern feminist terms, she was able to draw upon the cultural resources of her day in order to construct an intellectual authority for herself that challenged the prevailing orthodoxy of the day. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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