Christine de Pisan is with her thirty-year career Europe’s first professional woman writer an her work can be considered as a goldmine for gender historians! Here she is depicted in a 15th century handwriting with her Le livre de la mutation de fortune. With Le livre de la cité des dames the writer portrays the ideal world for women. Next to the education of women, Christine also wrote about the education of men and 'typical masculine' topics as politics, history and chivalry!

Here is an excerpt, an opening section of her work to get a good feel of her vibe :):
"Oh, God, how can this be? For unless I stray from my faith, I must never doubt that your infinite wisdom and most perfect goodness ever created anything which was not good. Did You yourself not create woman in a very special way and since that time did You not give her all those inclinations which it please You for her to have? And how could it be that You could go wrong in anything? Yet look at all these accusations which have been judged, decided, and concluded against women. I do not know how to understand this repugnance. If it is so, fair Lord God, that in fact so many abominations abound in the female sex, for You Yourself say that the testimony of two or three witnesses lends credence, why shall I not doubt that this is true? Alas, God, why did You not let me be born in the world as a man, so that all my inclinations would be to serve You better, and so that I would not stray in anything and would be as perfect as a man is said to be? But since Your kindness has not been extended to me, then forgive my negligence in Your service, most fair Lord God, and may it not displease You, for the servant who receives fewer gifts from his lord is less obliged in his service.' I spoke these words to God in my lament and a great deal more for a very long time in sad reflections, and in my folly considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world."