Women's Literature 5 Christine de Pizan: The Book of the City of Ladies
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these famous women throughout his it's a similar concept right
that you're gathering together women across history played to each
other on whose work belongs alongside each other Yeah so
it's like this imaginative powerful thing where you know even
in this world in which actually you see lots of
powerful men get to talk to each other you're putting
together some conversations that you don't actually get to have
all the women think about them is their own city
and you get all this incredible stuff You get arguments
for having women in society who get warnings against misogyny
morning is against her treacherous men khun b i mean
this's basically taylor swift squad Yeah she's up early and
she's also just arguing for a place for women in
society like taylor swift She's in kind of a bind
right She's in a society that is only going to
really give you a voice if you're sexy and also
wants to try to do with that what she can
to make it less of a place that only values
what is sexy She is to play into societal expectations
But it's absolutely not In a passive way yeah she's
always recur hooping and recuperating those structures to say something
And in this case that's Hey women are important and
then be kind of awful and they have been for
a long time How does christine to present Choose your
characters What topics are discussed in the book We're accepting 00:01:46.34 --> [endTime] nominations for mayor of the city of ladies