"A real life hero" ✨

Feminism started 300 years ago, but before that there were already some people who reflected on the position of women in society. However, most of the texts that women wrote or that defended women have disappeared.

Let's get to know the ideas of Christine de Pizan.  A woman ahead of her time, who she believed in the equality of men and women long before most people.

"After being widowed, and with three children in her charge, this woman of letters lived by her pen and became famous for her vindication of the knowledge and dignity of women long before the arrival of the massive feminist movements of later centuries"

From a young age, Christine proved to be good at literature, she composed contions and ballads that enraptured the court.  Her father did everything possible for her to have an advantageous marriage, and she succeeded, because when she reached the age of 15 she married the King's notary and secretary.  It was a happy marriage from which two boys and a girl were born.  In 1380 the King died (his son was too young to replace him) during the war of the hundred years, so the country was in a precarious situation, some time later she lost her father and her husband due to an epidemic, at the age of 25, 3 children, widow and a bad financial situation, the only solution that seemed possible was to marry another rich man.

Meanwhile she did not choose that, she faced the situation and as she herself said "I had to become a man".  She took charge of a sewing workshop and in her spare time she wrote, she sent some of her sonnets and ballads to influential people of the time, thanks to this she obtained a great financial balance.  In just 2 years she composed the book one hundred ballads and at the beginning of 1400 she participated in one of the most recognized debates, she launched a general debate on the condition of women and their equality with men at the French court.

She was the first woman to be recognized as a professional writer in Europe.

She had a great capacity for debate, she was the first woman who dared to write against the misogynistic ideas of the time, she generally wrote on taboo subjects, such as rape or the education of women.  Cristine reflected on why men have such a negative idea of ​​women and criticize them so much, after thinking about it, she wrote her most famous book: "The city of ladies", in this this book she reflects on what a city would be like  Without the wars or the chaos that men cause, he also assures that the history of women would be different if women were not educated by men. He also defends that the female body is something positive and good, this idea is unusual for its time.

Christine stopped writing for a long time, her last writing was about Joan of Arc and the following year she died.

SEARCH SOURCES:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/christine-pizan-feminista-siglo-xv_14729/amp

http://planetafacil.plenainclusion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Feminismo-para-principiantes.-Lectura-f%C3%A1cil.pdf

BY:

Alejandra Montoya Parra and Silvana Padilla Moros

Christine de Pizan