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The Book of the City of Ladies
Christine de Pisan

From the Introduction... Although The Book of the City of Ladies was written more than half a millenium ago, it is filled with potent observations for our times. The querelle des femmes the woman question in late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France—articulated its arguments in much the same way as today's debate about the equality of women. Here, in The Book of the City of Ladies, Christine intersperses her tal…

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