The word “quarrel” derives from the Latin querel(l)a (lamentation, [com]plaint) and the Old French querelle (disagreement, [legal] dispute, controversy; from 14th century “point of contention,” “concern [in a legal case]”). The querelle des sexes has multiple meanings: the “quarrel over gender,” the “quarrel of the sexes,” and the “issue of the genders” (Gender roles). The first attestation for querelle des dames in a historical source is found in Martin Le Franc’s Le champion…