The Book of the City of Ladies
1405 · 283 pages
Christine de Pizan, the first woman in Europe to live by her pen, answers centuries of learned misogyny by building an allegorical city whose every stone is the life of a woman.
★ 6.5
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Men Explain Things to Me
2014 · 176 pages
At an Aspen party a man lectures Solnit about an important new book on the photographer Muybridge. She wrote it. Her essays track how silencing women shades into violence against them.
★ 4.9