Christine de Pizan in her Book ofthe City ofhdies
The first woman to pick up her pen in the 1300s. Simone De Beauvoir
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1235, and Jean de Meun added about seventeen thousand verses-more than four times the original- around 1265
How much and how little can change in 30 years?
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But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God
Old testament is judaic and priestly which offers two views, but how/why in the new testament?
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Without households or property
Tied to property, here referencing it as power
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By speech women seduced men.
Tied to limitations of education? Literacy?
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the problem of chastity; the problem of power; the problem of speech; and the problem of knowledge.
All external to some extent?
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always adulterous
Still tied to impurity and sin of women.
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"the beginning and end of her own family,
This speaks to an isolation created through the establishment of property limits while being defined as property.
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four elements
I presented on this concept as used in Adventure Time. Lumpy Space Princess tries to find her place in a world split into the four temperaments, but she is the anti-elemental and this destroys hard line delineation.
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the female body contributed only matter.
Women as material. Reminds me of women as clay. Describing women as matter gets to it.
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Their activity may be recognized as the crucial moment for the entry of women into the world of advanced learning in the West and, indeed, the world.
I'm interested in the access to language and literacy that inspired this, as well as the way in which women gained admiration from men of the time.
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mechanisms created for the protection of women
Who/how were these created?
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the proper inheritance of property, title and status
[The body as]. I'm interested in this intersection between women's experiences in home and within the church, according to their person.
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Manumission
I'm interested in the process of release from slavery within this context
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