Christine De Pizan
Christine de Pizan
The poor little, rich girl, would probably be the modern term some might use for describing Chistine de Pizan. Although she was one of the first women to speak out on women’s rights, it is easy to dismiss her as a privileged woman with various rants that was basically ignored. She was well educated and her family was well connected, politically, socially and intellectually, with those who held power and influence in France in the early 1400s, and she did write about women’s issues at a time when most women were not educated and could not read her work (Bizzell 540). However, to only see this part of her life would not be a fair depiction of de Pizan or her contribution to rhetoric. She not only wrote about a better life for women in her society, but she also lived it. Her writings on misogynistic behavior in writing, and in society as whole, inspired future generations stimulated (with a few centuries delay) the women’s movement and defined feminist......
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