Have you seen the new Springer volume “Teaching Women Philosophers”? Ana Rieger Schmidt’s chapter “Defining Womankind with Christine de Pizan” explores Pizan’s humanistic work, showcasing her arguments on women’s intellect and agency in medieval society:

The paper has two main objectives: firstly, we contextualize the Parisian humanist intellectual background where the medieval secular philosopher Christine de Pizan lived and wrote. Secondly, we reconstruct the refutative arguments developed in The Book of the City of Ladies, seeking to show that feminine nature is fully compatible with all the virtues to the same extent as men’s nature. Pizan concludes that women reflect the perfection of their Creator, meaning that women’s more fragile physical constitution does not limit the rational component of the soul, which must be equally present in men and women.