MHC's Margolis Discusses First Feminist

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/news/channels/22/stories/5682892 Nadia Margolis, visiting professor of French and medieval studies, has written a groundbreaking new book about Christine de Pizan, An Introduction to Christine de Pizan: New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions. De Pizan, who lived in France during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, was a pioneering intellectual and one of the first known women to support herself through writing. She was widowed at 25 with three children to raise and no family alive to support her. She survived by writing, producing, and publishing books, poems, and pamphlets on a variety of topics, from philosophy to law, from literary criticism to treatises on women's status in society.

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Ms Margolis seems to be an exciting intellect of women, great women who lived hundreds of years ago! Fascinating. I hope she puts more of her lectures/interviews on You Tube.