ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Christine De Pizan, The Woman Question, Middle French
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La querelle des femmes? the woman question recognition that women are people. Or are they meant to tempt men into sin? (eve tempts adam with apple in garden of eden) question of misogyny an intellectual debate by humanist intellectuals. Christine first women who speaks out and speak on behalf of women to point out that the women;s side was missing educated for her time. Wrote in poetry and prose in the middle french vernacular not in latin to reach and wider and more middle class audience. Writing was innovative for the time, regardless of gender. Wrote in a huge variety of genres (lyric poetry, biographies, didactic and moral texts, allegory, politics, literacy criticism, history) Book of the city of ladies never lets readers forget that she is a women herself refuses to apologize for women reinterprets in a positive light.
