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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown-Grant, Rosalind.

Series:

Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 40.

Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431--Criticism and interpretation.

Christine.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-511-05166-2

0-511-15098-9

0-511-01010-9

OCLC:

559406014