The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan was written in medieval Europe, where the trend toward disrespect for women prevailed. The author of this work, Christine De Pijang, is the first female full-time writer to defend women’s authority and to try to escape men’s prejudices. When she was in the works, it was a difficult time for women not only for writing, but also for living by herself. Nevertheless, she continued to work with her beliefs. She wanted to restore women’s self-esteem from the men’s criticism, and hope that women would fulfill their roles and responsibilities as members of society.
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I agree what you wrote about Christine de Pizan. She is one of the world’s most important works of feminist literature. The reason why she wrote The book of the City of Ladies is to show the folks of the 1400s that women weren’t nearly as bad as men at the time said they were. Christine de Pizan no doubt thought that in making a case for women, it would be good to write a book that references all the great women of history and literature.
I agree with Clare, the idea of founding a Ciudad de las Damas, aims to create a
field where gender differences, embodied in power differences, so absurd to cease to exist. In this way, the community would be built as a place where women could fulfill themselves fully and openly, without seeing their activity limited by any censorship “without sense”. I think that it is not that the woman is more powerful than the man, but that both can be carried out without any prejudice, that the woman is not only seen by her physique, but by her intelligence and true value.