During the early fifteenth century, women were not anywhere to close to being equal to men in an way at all in society. They were regarded as being unable to be properly educated, much too emotional to regard and properly use logic, and relied on a man more than anything in life. Christine de Pizan, fights to change these much too standard views of women in her book, The City of Ladies. In one particular part of the story, Christine de Pizan questions Lady Reason asking why so many great authors such as Ovid, “who is considered to be the greatest of all poets”(Christine de Pizan, Book 1, 20) for their time, made so many derogatory terms regarding all women in his writings. Christine de Pizan is using this story to express her opinion on the
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Feminism. What is thought when this word is said or heard? Perhaps the “first wave” feminists that took place in the 1800’s that fought for the major legal and societal issues faced by woman. Or maybe the more recent, third and fourth wave feminism which are very much redesigning what feminism is and what it means to be considered a person who identifies as a “feminist”. The truth is that there are many different styles and forms of feminism and different ways they can be interpreted. It is very difficult to say feminism is purely one thing or another as there are many different opinions and purposes. Though the term “feminist” and feminism emerged when the first wave started in the early nineteenth century, there were many people that observed there was a great unfairness between Men and Women much earlier than the nineteenth-century. To some, the discussion of if Christine de Pizan was a Feminist can be a big debate. One argument that Christine de Pizan was actually not a feminist is that the term “feminism” is an anachronism meaning that its a term that does not belong to that period of time, concluding that because the word is not appropriate to that time, the action of being a feminist does not exist.
Feminism. What is thought when this word is said or heard? Perhaps the “first wave” feminists that took place in the 1800’s that fought for the major legal and societal issues faced by woman. Or maybe the more recent, third and fourth wave feminism which are very much redesigning what feminism is and what it means to be considered a person who identifies as a “feminist”. The truth is that there are many different styles and forms of feminism and different ways they can be interpreted. It is very difficult to say feminism is purely one thing or another as there are many different opinions and purposes. Though the term “feminist” and feminism emerged when the first wave started in the early nineteenth century, there were many people that observed there was a great unfairness between Men and Women much earlier than the nineteenth-century. To some, the discussion of if Christine de Pizan was a Feminist can be a big debate. One argument that Christine de Pizan was actually not a feminist is that the term “feminism” is an anachronism meaning that its a term that does not belong to that period of time, concluding that because the word is not appropriate to that time, the action of being a feminist does not exist.