Renaissance Activity 1A Factsheet
Read ONLY the clues with points!
| CHRISTINE DE PIZAN |
3 pts: Wrote of the unjust treatment of women in her era.
2 pts: Three female characters representing Reason, Rectitude, and Justice promise to help this author balance things out between the genders. 1 pt: Reason, Rectitude, and Justice help the author build a city where women will be safe and excel. |
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"Do you know why women know less?",
asks Christine.
"Without the slightest doubt", responds Reason. "It is because they are not involved in many things, but stay at home, where it is enough for them to run the household, and there is nothing which so instructs a reasonable creature as the exercise and experience of many different things." |
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