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I made the mistake of buying the audiobook. The narrator is great but reading out loud just makes the repetitive arguments more tiresome. It is a great historical document but between treating mythological female characters as real women and some of the preachy tone I could not finish. It is a important book and if you want to study it buy the text, not the audiobook

Today on #Medievalitsy: meet Christine de Pizan. A woman writer, thinker and advocate of women's rights to study and be part of the cultural circles.
She even wrote the book quoted in this blurb which imagines a city built and inhabited by the most diverse ladies all with amazing qualities and strengths.
She fought the popular writers of her time who dismissed her because of her gender. All in all an amazing woman and ahead of her time.

"Unique amongst female authors in the Middle Ages [...] Christine was the first to earn her living exclusively from her pen. [...] She was also the first woman in the Middle Ages to confront head on the tradition of literary misogyny or anti-feminism that pervaded her culture" (from the introduction)

This looks like it's going to be an interesting read to kickoff my #amillenniuminbooks challenge with the 15th century.

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It's medieval Europe. You're a woman with few choices: (1) get married, (2) join the church, or (3) be a social outcast. Working, let alone writing for profit, was not one of your choices. Christine didn't care. She not only wrote for money, she employed a workshop of women, too. This story is about women, building an entire city for women - a cool concept to ponder.