Reading The Book of the City of Ladies | Alexandria
Read The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan. Demolishing medieval sexism, an icon's 600-year-old manifesto deconstructs gender bias by revealing how women's exclusion from power rests on logical fallacies, not facts. De Pizan proved oppression stems from custom rather than nature - a radical view that exposed discrimination as a cultural choice long before modern feminism emerged.