Fearless Females - Mark Cruse
Channel: ACMRS Arizona
Date: 2013-09-17

"The Widow, the Prince, and the Book: How Christine de Pizan Rewrote History"

Presented by Mark Cruse
Professor of French, School of International Letters & Cultures, ASU

Dr. Cruse's presentation, highlights the life of Christine de Pizan illustrating the incontrovertible impact she had on her culture and times, and shows how her refusal to be silenced echoes throughout the centuries and remains just as relevant today as it did in the 1400s. She was a true role model. De Pizan was not afraid to speak her mind, a woman confident that it was perfectly within the realm of possibility to have a separate and dissenting thought from men ... and she put it in writing for everyone to read.