"Heptameron"

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A brief discussion of how gender issues were displayed in Marguerite de Navarre's 1558 piece of literature, "Heptameron". It looks at how this work was reflective of the life women led at the time and how they were subservient to men.

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"In Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron, women are portrayed as subservient to men. This book was written in 1558, and the role of women in society, and in the lives of men, was very different then than it is now (Lyons & McKinley, 1993). When the book first came out in print, women were just beginning to get educations and be valued somewhat in society for more than wives and mothers. Marguerite de Navarre was a very powerful woman, and she influenced many other women writers of the time. Women have come a long way, and whether one likes that or loathes it, works of literature such as Heptameron make it rather hard to ignore or overlook the changes that have occurred in the roles of the sexes from the time the book was printed until the present day."

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