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Article: Widowhood, sexuality, and gender in Christine de Pizan.
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- The Romanic Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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Christine de Pizan's rich and varied oeuvre, as it appears in the major manuscripts whose compilation she herself supervised, involves a set of multiple subject positions, that are both essential and constitutive ("built in," as it were) with regard to the oeuvre as such.(1) There is, however, first of all, Christine's authorial subject, implicitly guaranteeing the overall coherence of each of her major single-author mss., as well as the conceptual literary entity in which all the mss. are presented, both implicitly and explicitly. Then there are the various subject positions utilized by Christine-author to construct her public persona as a professional writer within the ...