In the years 1364-1429 there was a great woman writer by the name of Christine de
Pisan. This woman wrote great works including her most famous The City of Ladies in which
she questions Lady of Reasoning. In this book, she also questioned the importance of the male.
She also reasoned that men were not more intelligent than women as people in that period
assumed, that when Eve ate the forbidden apple she was doing something great for all kind
because as she did that man was being taken with God, and that women are not as skilled as men
because they are told that their job is to run a household. Women were not given the same
Without such books women might not have gotten to explore other options than only
running a household. The world for women might still be oppressed. Men would still be against
women doing anything besides running the house and mothering the children. Most women
were not allowed to do such things as writing poetry or books, or be doctors or politicians.
Many of the great women in history may have looked upon this book as a guide in order to use it
to their advantage and to promote equality between the sexes.
The meaning of this book is still evident in society today. We do now have equality
thanks to the women's movement. Our jobs and home life are incredibly different now than they
were thousands of years ago. We now hold many of the same jobs as men and we are sometimes
better at it. Running a household is also different. Men are staying at home with the children and
keeping house. There is no longer a barrier that states men are better than women. The women in
this world are taking control of their lives instead of being told what to do. We should be
thankful to Christine de Pisan for starting the women's movement back in 1405.
The passage that I read from this book was very interesting. The diale
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