CHRISTINE DE PIZAN AND THE QUERELLE DE FEMMES
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN AND THE QUERELLE DE FEMMES
Author(s): Reghina Dascăl Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
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. "[...]
Journal: Gender Studies
- Issue Year: 2008
- Issue No: 07
- Page Range: 128-147
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English