Two things make me want to write this post: #TellAFeministThankYou, which is happening on Twitter right now, and Suzanne Venker’s latest assertion that “Feminism didn’t result in equality between the sexes, it resulted in mass confusion.” I’m a big fan of … Read more →
This is my last post in my series on Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (1405). Please start with Part I. Lady Justice tells Christine that it is time to introduce the city they’ve built to … Read more →
This is a continuation of my reading of Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (1405). Please start with Part I. Christine asks Rectitude about authors who claim that educating women ruins their mores. Rectitude argues that … Read more →
This is a continuation of my reading of Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (1405). Please start with Part I. Christine asks Rectitude about family relations, beginning with the preference for sons over daughters. Christine asks: … Read more →
This is part of my reading of Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (1405). Please start with Part I. Just as Mary Wollstonecraft would do centuries later, Christine argues that women were held back through lack … Read more →
This is a continuation of my reading of Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (1405). Please start with Part I and Part II. Christine asks Reason why women don’t plead law cases in court or hand down judgments. Reason’s response illustrates … Read more →
This is Part II of a series on The Book of the City of Ladies, written by Christine de Pizan in 1405. Please start with Part I. Christine is visited by three crowned ladies, who introduce themselves as Reason, Rectitude, and Justice. … Read more →
So, this is the post I meant to put out before all the awfulness happened… Remember when I said I was starting a project of reading feminist texts? Well, I haven’t forgot. I started with Mary Wollstonecraft, with the intent … Read more →
Just some more background on Wollstonecraft, to clarify my earlier remarks about Wollstonecraft’s writings being geared toward the middle class. If you’re new to my Wollstonecraft series, you can start here. From Moira Ferguson and Janet Todd, Mary Wollstonecraft (1984): … Read more →
Some more stuff from my copy of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed, Carol H. Poston, editor). From Mary Wollstonecraft by Ralph Wardle (1951): The overwhelming majority of Englishwomen of [Wollstonecraft's] time had known … Read more →