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Record Number:
9451
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Case , Mary Anne C.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Christine de Pizan and the Authority of Experience [The author argues that Christine was one of several "knowing and singular" feminists in the medieval and early modern periods who maintained that exceptional women should be considered exemplars who demonstrate the potential of all women].
Source:
Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference. Edited by Marilynn Desmond. University of Minnesota Press, 1998. Pages 71 - 87.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
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Authority
Christine de Pizan, Poet
Experience
Feminist Theory
Misogyny in Literature
Polemics- Women
Querelle de la Rose
Women's Nature
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
France
Century:
15
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For Case, Christine's problem lay in the source of her knowledge -- mundane experience, instead of privileged books. Case evokes the puzzling tension between Christine's valorization of instructive experience and her warnings about its potential to confus
Author's Affiliation:
University of Virginia
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
1998.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0816630801