WGS 255 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Christine De Pizan, Reason, 3 Women
16 May 2019
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Chapter 1 three writers: stories of 3 women making history (14, 1 french scholar and pet, 2 american activist, 3 english novelist, gave women history, faced similar problems we face today. Paris, france, c. 1400: christine de pizan, reading something offensive to women, wondered why men thought this way, men"s opinions spilled out like a gushing fountain, filling her with doubt. (14) London, england, 1928: went to a library to search for answers, virginia wolf. Intellectual fathers, domestic women (17: a lot of similarities, encouraged and discouraged to learn, married men who were supportive, lived during wars, were women but imagined being men. Talked back to books (17: they are all icons now. Or less a scholar for being a woman? (19: discovers women"s history aren"t terrible. Here you can clearly see that not all opinions of men are based on reason and that these men are wrong (20: people distrust or disbelieve women"s ideas because we.
