Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cite des Dames (1405) is justly
renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes
which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind
Brown-Grant locates the Cite in the context of Christine's defence
of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range
of different texts. Arguing that Christine tailored her critique of
misogyny according to the genre in which she was writing and the
audience she was addressing, this study shows that Christine's case
for women nonetheless had an underlying unity in its insistence on
the moral, if not the social, equality of the sexes. Whilst
Christine may not have been a radical in modern feminist terms, she
was able to draw upon the cultural resources of her day in order to
construct an intellectual authority for herself that challenged the
prevailing orthodoxy of the day.
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