The City Of Ladies Analysis

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I am not sure if Christine de Pizan can be defined as a feminist but I also think that she doesn’t belong in the category of feminist that we now adhere to. While yes, her works were focused on the equality of the sexes and proving that women are capable of reason and knowledge as men her methods of refuting those who believed otherwise isn’t necessarily feminist. My definition of feminism can be summed up by looking at intersectional feminism. Intersectional feminism is defined as understanding the multiplicity of women's identities such as race, class, sex, and gender, and how such identities have an affect on the oppression of women. From this definition of feminism, Christine de Pizan doesn't necessarily seem to be a feminist. As stated in the readings, she …show more content…

This experience was vastly different from the every day lives of the majority of women. The current working definition of feminism hopes to understand the experiences of all women and not only the privileged few. However, her arguments for expanding the status of women can be applied to all women such which can be seen in her book The City of Ladies. Even though her life experiences might not have been those of the majority of women of the time period, her arguments can be applicable to all women. In part one of The City of Ladies, she makes numerous arguments against the theological traditions of the time that didn’t believe in the equality of the sexes. She uses the arguments of theologians to turn it around on them therefore proving that women in the bible are equal to men. First, she stresses the moral equality of men and women. She states that women are morally superior to men because they helped create laws and shared their knowledge. Women might not have the physical strength of men but, to CdP, this isn’t necessary as women's moral qualities outshine those of men. She gives the example of

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