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Summary Of The City Of Ladies By Christine De Pizan

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Christine de Pizan’s writing was something that was interesting. It seems that many women throughout time have the same point of view. In my opinion, the main character of the book “the city of ladies” Christine de Pizan’s seems to frustrated that she was born a women. One day Christine takes time to go into her study and relax upon doing so she picks up a book by Mathéolus. Reading this book Christine was upset by what she was reading, the book had a very negative view of women. She became angry and began to not only ask herself but she also began to ask God why she was born a women if women were as bad as this book portrays them to be. As Christine thinks about her worth in this world three women appear to her the first women being lady reason. Lady reason discusses with Christine about many successful women and that women are important because they display more caution when it comes to making decisions. The second lady that came to Christine was Rectitude seems to be the protector of women in a way. The last lady to come to Christine was Justice and she tells her about the women who have became martyrs in the name of their faith. …show more content…

The next writing is the “the worth of women” it speaks of women’s and the man’s. In cases where the writer compares both men and women “The implications of her arguments are drawn out by Leonora: "if women are men's inferiors in status, but not in worth, this is an abuse that has been introduced into the world and that men have then, over time, gradually translated into law and custom, and it has become so e n - trenched that they claim (and even actually believe) that the status they have gained through their bullying is theirs by right" (p.

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