A City of Women Between Two Lips: Écriture Féminine In Christine De Pizan and Luce Irigaray

Year 2025, Volume: 24 Issue: 2, 657 - 678, 30.09.2025

Janset Nas Kılınç

Abstract

This study explores how the female subject is reconstructed through writing in Christine de Pizan’s literary production by intersecting her work with Luce Irigaray’s écriture feminine. In this context, De Pizan, who is recognized as the first professional female author in Europe, is examined through her works Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (The Book of the City of Ladies) and Le Livre de la Mutation de Fortune (The Book of the Transformation of Fortune), focusing on how she reclaims and reconfigures the female subject through writing. The narratives of bodily transformation in de Pizan’s texts are analyzed alongside Irigaray’s concepts such as “the two lips”, the inside-outside, and feminine writing, revealing that these transformations function not merely as physical but as linguistic and metaphorical.

Keywords

Écriture Féminine , City of Women , Christine de Pizan , Luce Irigaray

İki Dudak Arasında Bir Kadınlar Şehri: Christine De Pizan ve Luce Irigaray'da Dişil Yazı

Abstract

Bu çalışma, Christine de Pizan’ın edebi üretimini Irigaray’ın dişil yazı anlayışıyla kesiştirerek de Pizan’da kadın öznenin yazı aracılığıyla nasıl yeniden kurulduğunu araştırmaktadır. Bu bağlamda Avrupa’nın ilk profesyonel kadın yazarı olarak kabul edilen De Pizan’ın, kadın özneyi yazı aracılığıyla nasıl yeniden kurduğu, Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (Kadınlar Kenti) ve Le Livre de la Mutation de Fortune (Talihin Değişimi) adlı eserleri üzerinden incelenerek De Pizan’ın metinlerindeki bedensel dönüşüm anlatıları, Irigaray’ın “iki dudak”, iç-dış ve dişil yazı gibi kavramlarıyla birlikte okunarak, bu dönüşümlerin yalnızca fiziksel değil, dilsel ve metaforik geçişler olarak işlediği ortaya konmuştur.

Keywords

Dişil Yazı , Kadınlar Şehri , Christine de Pizan , Luce Irigaray

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