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Pages: 336
Pages: 336
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-06-09 - Publisher: Penguin UK
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Language: en
Pages: 467
Pages: 467
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-06-09 - Publisher: Penguin UK
'Philosophers, poets and orators too numerous to mention all speak with one voice and are unanimous in their view that female nature is wholly given up to vice.
Language: en
Pages: 0
Pages: 0
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
"A translation of Christine de Pizan's Christine's Vision, The Book of the City of Ladies, the Lamentation on France's Ills and her Book of Body Politic, with a
Language: en
Pages: 99
Pages: 99
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-25 - Publisher: Penguin UK
Pioneering female writer Christine de Pizan's spirited defence of her sex against medieval misogyny and literary stereotypes is now recognized as one of the mos
Language: en
Pages: 354
Pages: 354
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Rodopi