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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

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

Atwood, Margaret
French, Marilyn

Paperback

Series: From Eve to Dawn, Book 2

General World HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1558615679
ISBN13: 9781558615670
Publisher: Feminist Press
Published: Apr 1 2008
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

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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