CHRISTINE DE PIZAN AND THE QUERELLE DE FEMMES
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN AND THE QUERELLE DE FEMMES

Summary/Abstract: "This essay is centred on the crucial role played by Christine de Pizan in initiating a four-century-long polemical tradition better known as la querelle de femmes. It is my intention to open up for the reader the context of this extraordinary author’s emergence onto the literary scene as well as the socio-political and cultural circumstances of her joining this polemical, agonistic tradition. I shall do this by providing a brief survey of her predecessors and of the principal ‘feminist’ ideas that had already been circulating in various circles, societies and milieus. "[...]

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