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Christine De Pisan - Continued
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♀ Feminist Friday ♀
Christine De Pisan - Continued
De Pisan's 1405 work, Le livre du trèsor de la citéde dames—translated as The Treasure of the City of Ladies; or, The Book of Three Virtues—continues her arguments on behalf of the gentler sex. In this work she takes her argument to her own age, laying forth what she sees as three basic classes of women: noble and aristocratic women, women of the court and lesser nobility, and women of the growing merchant and artisan classes. Common women were not included because their lack of basic literacy excluded them from the reading public. It is all women's right, she argues, to obtain schooling sufficient to allow them to use their natural talents to benefit themselves and society, and especially to become educated, sophisticated citizens able to recognize corruption among political figures. In the prologue to Le livre du trèsor de la cité de dames she wrote: "If it were customary to send little girls
