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    The Book of the City of Ladies
    The Book of the City of Ladies
    The Book of the City of Ladies
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Book of the City of Ladies

    Written by Christine de Pizan

    Narrated by Georgina Sutton

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    About this audiobook

    Shocked and distressed by a male writer’s vilification of women, Christine de Pizan has a powerful dreamlike vision in which she is visited by three personified Virtues: Reason, Rectitude and Justice. They tell her she has been chosen to write a book which will be like a city, housing virtuous women and protecting them from feminist attack. Heroines past and present form the foundations of this city – biblical and mythical heroines, ruling queens, Christian saints, and inventors are among them. Partly myth, partly fact, The Book of the City of Ladies is an extraordinary, pioneering and impassioned defence of women that set out to shatter medieval misogynist clichés, and serve to instil self-worth in its female readers of the time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateApr 1, 2020
    ISBN9781781983164
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    • 5/5
      Absolutely delightful. Let go of your anachronisms and dive into this piece of late mediaeval thought that remains terrifyingly- and somehow comfortingly- relevant to our days. The questions Christine asks her lady visitors- pleading them to contradict the misogynistic tradition around her- are ones that we still ask to this day as post modern feminists in a world with universal suffrage.
      Alas, misogyny has remained the same in the past 617 years, but we as women have evolved. Our struggles are nothing but distant dreams for the women of old. Take courage in these tales of women who have, since the beginning of western civilization, stood in the face of adversity with patience and steadfastness. Let them put a spring in your steps as the relentless force of your foremothers pushes you onwards.