Una lectura bastante agradable y con un estilo bastante fácil de soportar.
A pesar de su crisol religioso, inevitable en un texto de estas características, contiene una lectura bastante moderna (y feminista antes de lo que podríamos llamar feminista), ilumina a la posible lectora con historia de grandes mujeres, paganas o no, y las interpreta.

Me ha aclarado más de un aspecto, y he aprendido un poco, así que no estado mal. ( )

simply awful. if you want to read a revision of mythology which in reality just lists women and how they weren't useless, then go for. a brief skimming may be of interested, since it is reputed as one of the first feminist pieces of western literature, but there's not much reward. ( )

Una lectura bastante agradable y con un estilo bastante fácil de soportar.
A pesar de su crisol religioso, inevitable en un texto de estas características, contiene una lectura bastante moderna (y feminista antes de lo que podríamos llamar feminista), ilumina a la posible lectora con historia de grandes mujeres, paganas o no, y las interpreta.

Me ha aclarado más de un aspecto, y he aprendido un poco, así que no estado mal. ( )

I read this in the 9th grade (and I know what a walkman is, so you can judge for yourself how long ago that was), so I'm pretty sure that (a) I didn't precisely get the maximum value out of the text, and (b) my memories do not do the book justice. I did a project on the role of women in medieval and renaissance times, and had a very hard time convincing my teacher that primary sources from the female perspective basically didn't exist. This is one of the very, very few examples. In the book, de Pizan discusses contemporary stereotypes of her gender and argues against certain negative portrayals. At a time in which women were considered to be ruled by passion, while men were ruled by reason, de Pizan argues strongly that women should also be ruled by reason. She does, however, maintain a dichotomy between the sexes, attributing gentleness, compassion, etc, to women and (if I remember correctly) decisiveness and action to men. She argues that the differences in nature between the genders itself implies an inherent difference in the roles that the gender is designed to take. To me, her argument here is interesting in itself, as she does not appear to address how she herself is in a position typically held by men. She also has a long section in which she expounds upon the female's role as wife and her duty towards her husband. An interesting but not precisely entertaining read. ( )