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Which late 14th/ early 15th century writer is the author of The Book of the City of Ladies?
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Joan of Arc is NOT mentioned in any of the works by which of the following authors?
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Who defended women's equality in a book named The Worth of Women (subtitled "Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men")?
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Who was the author of The Consolation of Philosophy Revised Edition?
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Who was the first woman known to have earned a living as a writer?
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In terms of structure, premise, and type of narrative, which of the following is the odd one out?
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One of the major literary voices of the late Middle Ages/early Renaissance, and the first woman to earn a living as a writer, Christine de Pizan once wrote a series of letters to protest against one of the most popular books of her age, whose portrayal of women she considered profoundly offensive and misogynistic. Which was the book?
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In her Book of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pizan uses the following "pot calling the kettle black" comparison in order to highlight the unequal standards applied to men and women in society:
"Since men accuse women of frailty, one would suppose that they themselves take care to maintain a reputation for _________, or at the very least, that the women are indeed less so than they are themselves. And yet, it is obvious that they demand of women greater __________ than they themselves have, for they who claim to be of this strong and noble condition cannot refrain from a whole number of very great defects and sins, and not out of ignorance, either, but out of pure malice, knowing well how badly they are misbehaving. But all this they excuse in themselves and say that it is in the nature of man to sin, yet if it so happens that any women stray into any misdeed (of which they themselves are the cause by their great power and longhandedness), then it's suddenly all frailty and __________, they claim. But it seems to me that men should not ascribe to women as a great crime what in themselves they merely consider a little defect."
What is the thing that, Christine de Pizan feels, is unjustly considered merely a minor defect in men, but the gravest and most serious failing imaginable in women?
(The translation of the above excerpt is mine, btw., so googling the answer will only get you so far ...)
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Who offered the following alternative interpretation of Adam and Eve's Fall from Grace?
"It was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good."
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