The Book of the City of Ladies Themes

In Christine de Pizan's time, many male writers accused women of being superficial and totally incapable of love. Does that sound familiar? Maybe shades of Nice Guy Syndrome? Luckily Christine de P...

In the eyes of many men in the 1400s, women weren't as intelligent or moral as men, and so they were incapable of being loyal as men. This statement makes The Book of the City of Ladies do a show-s...

Christine de Pizan uses the platform of The Book of the City of Ladies to respond to men in her society who think no woman is worthy of the institute of marriage. Her response, in a nutshell: You'r...

It figures that Christine de Pizan would spend a lot of The Book of the City of Ladies talking about men and masculinity, since men are the ones most responsible for giving women a horrible reputat...

It should come as no surprise that one of the central themes of The Book of the City of Ladies is women and femininity. From the first page, Christine de Pizan writes with the sole intent of provin...

It's important to remember that Christine de Pizan wrote The Book of the City of Ladies around 1405, meaning that she lived in a completely different world than the one we live in today. Bubonic pl...

For someone who wants to emphasize the importance of people's minds, Christine de Pizan talks an awful lot about physical appearances in The Book of the City of Ladies. She'd grown up in the cultur...

The Book of the City of Ladies is about women in the early 1400s: you just know that power plays a huge role. In those days, men had all the power in society and women had to do everything they sai...