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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822855103321

Autore

Brown-Grant Rosalind

Titolo

Christine de Pizan and the moral defence of women : reading beyond gender / / Rosalind Brown-Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, NY, USA, : Cambridge University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-511-05166-2

0-511-15098-9

0-511-01010-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Collana

Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; ; 40

Disciplina

841/.2

Soggetti

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. xi-xiv) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Series-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""WORKS BY CHRISTINE DE PIZAN""; ""WORKS BY OTHER MEDIEVAL AUTHORS""; ""SECONDARY SOURCES ON THE WORKS OF CHRISTINE DE PIZAN""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER 1 The 'querelle de la ""Rose"" ': Christine's critique of misogynist doctrine and literary practice""; ""ANTI-FEMINISM IN THE FIRING LINE""; ""Misogyny in the 'Rose': men, women and love""; ""Defending the indefensible? Misogyny in the 'querelle'""; ""JEAN DE MEUNG'S ROSE: A POETICS OF MISOGYNY?""

""PRACTICAL MORALITY AND THE 'POLITICS OF VISIBILITY'""""WOMEN IN LOVE: REWRITING MISOGYNIST STEREOTYPES""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Conclusion""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Christine de Pizan's <i>Livre de la Cité des Dames</i> (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes that dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cité in the context of Christine's defense of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts. This study shows that Christine's case for women nonetheless had an underlying unity in its insistence on the moral, if not the social, equality of the sexes.