Christine writes ,"How it is unbecoming for women to defame each other or speak evil." She makes it clear in her novel, that to defame someone is to defame yourself.
Christine belives envy "is the worst and most wrong and unreasonable kind of slander." She teaches her audience that mischievous gossip based on evil destroys good people, and that people who envy are made up of "sheer wickedness."
In her other novel entitled "The Book of the City of Ladies," Christine stands up for womans rights for a better, equal education. She writes "against those men who claim it is not good for women to be educated." Men do not want their women equally, or more educated then they are, because that would bring woman more power, knowledge, and control. Man was displeased with the uncommon woman who knew more than he did.
Christine uses rhetoric to persuade her readers, mostly comprised of females, to better themselves, educate themselves, and provide for themselves.