Book Of The City Of Ladies Analysis

The Book of the City of Ladies opens with Christine de Pizan stating that because women never write about themselves, they are unfairly represented in literature. Christine then goes on to establish counter arguments against the negative terms in which women have been painted by male authors. This feminist work dates back to over 600 years ago. However, in the year 2015, there are still entire articles dedicated to the inequality faced by women all over the world. Many of the same women’s rights issues that Christine discusses in The Book of the City of Ladies can be seen in the Chonghaile’s recent article, “Legal Barriers Prevent Women’s Empowerment in more than 170 Countries.” This article, featured in the United Kingdom newspaper, The Guardian, might come as a shock to many. This is especially true for the United States, where the general consensus might be that women and men have equal rights. However, as discussed in the article, the United States Constitution does not specify gender equality, putting the U.S. alongside “32 countries whose constitutions do not explicitly guarantee gender equality.” Additionally, “more than 150 countries lacked protections needed to ensure women’s full participation in the economy, with only 64 countries …show more content…
As Chonghaile demonstrates in the article, “Legal Barriers Prevent Women’s Empowerment in more than 170 Countries,” women’s voices are often still silenced 600 years later. Both pieces of literature discuss the impact of economic, social, political, and educational barriers that women face in the past and present. Chonghaile goes on to explain that changes need to be made, especially in these areas, in order to begin to bridge the gap of gender inequality. As Christine did, it is necessary to create a world in which women are protected from the injustices and inequalities they are burdened with because of their