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Christine de Pisan’s Book of the City of Ladies

Christine de Pisan’s Book of the City of Ladies
Christine de Pisan was a French poet who wrote in the 1400s. In The Book of the City of Ladies (1405), she celebrated the achievements of women and put forth the idea of a city inhabited only by women.
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Feminism; Pisan, Christine de
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