Article: Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading Beyond Gender.

By Rosalind Brown-Grant. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv + 224 pp. $64.95 cloth.

According to Rosalind Brown-Grant, there has been a tendency among feminist critics of Christine de Pizan (1364-14307) either to laud her as a feminist foremother--seeing in her work a challenge to the dominant misogyny of the Christian Middle Ages and even foreshadowings of central psychoanalytic and poststructuralist feminist ideas--or to castigate her as insufficiently feminist, unable adequately to address and therefore to challenge patriarchal social structures and hierarchical practices. For many feminist critics, the ...

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