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{{Quote|"[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.”|Christine de Pizan}} | {{Quote|"[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.”|Christine de Pizan}} | ||
==16th Century== | |||
The model of a man as a knight and woman as Lord portrayed in Troubador poetry, plays, and stories, is thought to have had an influence on the actual behaviour or the peasantry. 16th century poet and feminist Lucrezia Marinella celebrated the female-sex-favoritism she saw in the Italian lower-classes. | |||
{{Quote|"It is a marvelous sight in our city to see the wife of a shoemaker or butcher or even a porter all dressed up in gold chains around her neck, with pearls and valuable rings around her fingers [...] and then by contrast to see her husband cutting up meat all soiled with ox's blood and down at the heel, or loaded up like a beast of burden dressed in rough cloth, as porters are. | |||
At first it may seem an astonishing anomoly to see the wife dressed like a lady and the husband so basely that he often appears to be her servant or butler, but if we consider the matter properly, even if she is humble and low, to be ornameted in this way because of her natural dignity and excellence, and the man less so, like a servant or beast born to serve her}} | |||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||