![]() ![]() ![]() Hackett's edition of this work, featuring Ineke Hardy's readable and engaging translation, provides the new student and the established scholar with easy access to Christine's citadel. ![]() Christine would no doubt recognize that such armor is still necessary today when women continue to be underrepresented in the literary and philosophical canon as well as in the history books, and when women too often remain afraid to raise their voices in protest. Her book was meant to be read and internalized as a shield worn upon the heart, protecting women with an invisible fortress as they sought to support themselves, their families, and their nation-states. ![]() In this book, Christine maintains that Reason, Rectitude, and Justice have urged her to create a catalog of stories of heroic women in order that, in knowing them, she and other women might take courage in their own abilities and merits. In 1404, Christine de Pizan began writing The City of Ladies, a book that she hoped would serve as a citadel for women like her, women whom Fortune appeared to have abandoned to a world of misogyny that undermined women's trust in themselves, their virtues, and their ability to reason. ![]()
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