Name: From Eve to Dawn, a History of Women in the World, Volume II: The Masculine Mystique: From Feudalism to the French Revolution
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Author: French, Marilyn ; Atwood, Margaret
ISBN: 9781558615670

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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

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marilyn French

Preface by

Margaret Atwood

Publisher

Feminist Press

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.8 x 15.3 x 3.2 cm

Weight

0.65 kg.

ISBN

1558615679

ISBN13

9781558615670

Synopsis "From Eve to Dawn, a History of Women in the World, Volume II: The Masculine Mystique: From Feudalism to the French Revolution"

"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

Margaret Atwood

(Preface by)

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Margaret Atwood (Ottawa, 1939) is one of the most prestigious writers on the international scene. A prolific author translated into more than forty languages, she has practiced all literary genres. Among her extensive output, the novels The Heart Goes Last, Alias Grace, The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, Maddaddam, and Cat's Eye stand out, as well as the short story collection Stone Mattress and the essays The Penelopiad and Payback, all published by Salamandra. She has received, among others, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Governor General's Award, the Order of Arts and Letters, the Booker Prize (on two occasions), the Montale Prize, the Nelly Sachs Prize, the Giller Prize, the National Arts Club Literary Award, the Franz Kafka International Prize, and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

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