At this point religion and limpieza de sangre can be associated with the defense of women. The attack on misogynistic writings proved also to be an attack on the men who wrote these works. As previously stated, the defenses of women equated nobility and chivalry with their definition of "good Christian behavior". Given the political tensions of the time during which Christian nobles felt conversos were a threat to their wealth by occupying positions they felt were rightfully theirs and where Muslims still held Granada under their power, it is possible to describe the debate of women, which consists of writings in defense of women, as a metaphor for the tensions between Christians and their enemies, the conversos and Muslims. Defenses of women
