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Ep. 97: Medieval Girlboss

Young Heretics

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The City of Ladies, by Christina Backaccio

In the book, christine is kind of this boethius figure in that she's weeping at all the attacks on women. And then she's visited by lady reason, lady rectitude, and lady justice,. They offer there their help to build the city of ladies which will be composed entirely out of virtuous ladies from throughout history. But here's an interesting sort of feature of this book for us to day, because there are points at which i would argue christine overstates her case.

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