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From Eve to Dawn, a History of Women in the World, Volume II: The Masculine Mystique: From Feudalism to the French Revolution
Contributor(s): French, Marilyn (Author), Atwood, Margaret (Foreword by)

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ISBN: 1558615679     ISBN-13: 9781558615670
Publisher: Feminist Press
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Published: April 2008
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Analyzing feudalism in Europe and Japan and European expropriation of lands and peoples across the globe, Marilyn French poses a provocative question: how and why did women, with no power or independence, nourish and preserve the family unit and their own culture?

Marilyn French's "The Women's Room" crystallized the issues that ignited the women's movement and was translated into twenty languages. She received her PhD from Harvard and taught English at Hofstra University, Harvard University, and Holy Cross College.

Internationally acclaimed author and critic Margaret Atwood is the author of numerous works of fiction, including "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Blind Assassin."

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- History | Modern - 16th Century
- History | Women
Dewey: 305.420
LCCN: 2007033836
Series: From Eve to Dawn
Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6.04" W x 8.98" L (1.44 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453)
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Chronological Period - 15th Century
- Chronological Period - 16th Century
- Chronological Period - 17th Century
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Library Journal Supplements 11/15/2007 pg. 44
Publishers Weekly 03/24/2008 pg. 64
Library Journal 04/15/2008 pg. 96
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2008 pg. 170
Library Journal Supplements 11/15/2008 pg. 56
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

"Filled with fascinating detail . . . this second volume of French's massive and valuable work is an example of scholarship and clear vision." --Publishers Weekly

This volume of New York Times-bestselling author Marilyn French's monumental history analyzes and evaluates the lives of women in societies around the world between feudal times and the French Revolution. Drawing upon fifteen years of collaboration with a team of researchers and prominent historians, the volume opens with fascinating chapters comparing medieval Europe and Japan, disparate cultures which nevertheless shared traditions of male dominated aggression and competitiveness.

French then shows how, in Europe, this tradition led to colonialism and imperialism, and the horrific subjugation of indigenous societies, just as women were subjugated in the conquerors' home countries. As French makes clear in this impassioned women's history, only with the French Revolution did the political force women exerted powerfully change the course of history.

"French gives us grand theory at its best, wading through copious amounts of scholarly data on the histories of civilizations and offering up, in readable prose, an important synthesis." --Library Journal

 
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