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Highlights

  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

Christine de Pizan

the unbelievable anti-meninism of today’s elite literary scholars

Academic literary studies is very hostile to non-feminist approaches and rife with anti-meninism. Beware! Look for imagination & creativity elsewhere. … Read the post the unbelievable anti-meninism of today’s elite literary scholars

The Poet’s Repentance, updated: apology for man’s wrongs to women

The Poet’s Repentance, a poem preserved among the Harley Lyrics, shows great verbal sophistication in the dangerous practice of men’s sexed protest. … Read the post The Poet’s Repentance, updated: apology for man’s wrongs to women

Anne of France & lessons for daughters in history of anti-meninism

Anne of France, “Madame La Grande,” was a highly privileged woman and an influential leader in passing anti-meninism across generations of women. … Read the post Anne of France & lessons for daughters in history of anti-meninism

men’s protest, then quarrels, apologies & defenses for women

Matheolus’s sexed protest against his injuries from the church and his wife generated quarrels about women, apologies to women, and defenses of women. … Read the post men’s protest, then quarrels, apologies & defenses for women

dream of Gender in The Romance of the Rose

In a Dream, Gender speaks words of the Romance of the Rose, a book that Christine de Pizan set on the historical path to burning. … Read the post dream of Gender in The Romance of the Rose

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