Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies

The Book of The City of ladies published in 1405. It was published in medieval times. She wrote it as a response to several popular texts that she was reading at the time. She characterized women with a lot of negative traits. Popular fiction at the time was generalizing women as being naturally immoral, promiscuous, unable to be completely committed, week in terms of their fortitude. A lot of generalization we see today or a lot of fictional works today. But it was strong back then in medieval times. This bothered Christine De Pizan. And she wants to write a book to demonstrate that women aren’t naturally promiscuous, they do have strong fortitude, and they can commit to things. Basically, crushing a lot at of the negative stereotype generalization that was portrayed about women in popular text. She goes about providing a myriad of women, all different types of women both real and legendary, ones in myths, that basically crush a lot of those native generalizations that were popular at the time.