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  • 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

diverse tactics for lessening risk in criticizing women

To lessen risk in criticizing women, study tactics of the medieval Proverbia que dicuntur super natura feminarum and religiously invoke NAWALT. … Read the post diverse tactics for lessening risk in criticizing women

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

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