Sex and the City of Ladies
b'In 1405, Christine de Pisan took up the pen in defense of her maligned sex, imagining a \'City of Ladies\' in which the most virtuous female leaders of history might be preserved from the distortions of misogyny. Six hundred years later, with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great as her guides, the novelist and historian Lisa Hilton revisits the City to shake the foundations of the way we write about power
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