The allegory of female authority : Christine de Pizan's Cité des dames
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The allegory of female authority : Christine de Pizan's Cité des dames
Cornell University Press, c1991
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The first professional female writer, Christine de Pizan (1363-1431) was widowed at age twenty-five and supported herself and her family by enlisting powerful patrons for her poetry. Her Livre de la Cite des Dames (1405) is the earliest European work on women's history by a woman. An allegorical poem that revises masculine traditions, it asserts and defends the authority of women in general and of its author in particular. In this generously illustrated book, Maureen Quilligan provides a persuasive and penetrating interpretation of the Cite.
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