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From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women Volume 1: Origins
Contributor(s): French, Marilyn (Author), Atwood, Margaret (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1558615652     ISBN-13: 9781558615656
Publisher: Feminist Press
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2008
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"[Marilyn French] draws on a vast body of research and help from consultants in all sorts of fields, to open out areas that are rarely accessible."-"Guardian"

"As a reference work it's invaluable: the bibliographies alone are worth the price. And as a warning about the appalling extremes of human behavior and male weirdness, it's indispensable."-Margaret Atwood, "The Times" (London)

In her powerful and bold writing style, best-selling author Marilyn French synthesizes women's history from our pre-historical roots through the rise of states across the globe to the onset of state-backed religions in this first of four readable volumes.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: 305.420
LCCN: 2007033836
Series: From Eve to Dawn
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.06" W x 8.89" (1.08 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Chronological Period - Prehistoric
- Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453)
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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Publisher Description:

The first volume of the New York Times-bestselling author's monumental and unprecedented history: "Consistently thought-provoking" (The New York Review of Books).

The internationally celebrated author of The Women's Room, Marilyn French spent over fifteen years with a team of researchers and prominent historians examining women's lives and activities in civilizations and societies spanning the ages.

Beginning in prehistory, Origins moves on to examine women's lives in ancient Egypt, China, India, Peru, Mexico, Greece, and Rome. In her reconstruction of wars, laws, and other activities affecting both women and men, French also traces the worldviews underpinning them. She also depicts how women's relationship to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam changed for good and bad over the centuries.

"She backs up even her more controversial theories with an impressive accumulation of academically accepted historical, anthropological and sociological sources . . . Written in concise, understated language, this is a significant addition to literature on women's studies and history." --Publishers Weekly