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The book that makes you angry

Definitely not what I was expecting and I’m disappointed! I thought it would be more historical and less anecdote after anecdote. The audiobook’s reader is awful and the author’s tone is too sarcastic/trying to be funny. We’ll see if I finish it. 🙃

Sexy Foods and How to Have them & How to Not Get Pregnant are the funniest chapters. This book is such a great feminist approach to medieval history!

“He made woman, and I wondered how such aworthy artisan could have deigned to make such an abominable workwhich, from what they say, is the vessel as well as the refuge and abode of every evil and vice. As I was thinking this, a great unhappiness and sadness welled up in my heart, for I detested myself and the entire feminine sex, as though we were monstrosities innature” Christine de Pisan, the City of Ladies