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Title:From Eve to Dawn : The Masculine Mystique From Feudalism to the French Revolution
Series:(History of Women in the World Series: 2)
Author:Marilyn French; Foreword by Margaret Atwood
ISBN:1558615679 : 9781558615670
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:477
Weight: .67 Kg.
Published:Feminist Press - April 2008
List Price: 13.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Womens studies: History of specific subjects


Women's history: spanning from Europe to Japan, from the fifth century to the eighteenth. Analysing 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?

Foreword by Margaret Atwood; Introduction; Part Four: Reaching for Order and Control; Feudalism in Europe; Feudalism in Japan. Part Five: Expansion and Appropriation, 1500-1800; Control Tightens in Europe; European Appropriation of Africa; European Appropriation of Latin America; European Appropriation of North America; Black Experience in North America; The French Revolution. Afterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Map; Pre-colonial African Empires; Index.

"...draws on a vast body of research and help from consultants in all sorts of fields, to open out areas that are rarely accessible... Above all, she recalls the depth and breadth of the war that has been waged on women down the centuries, the restrictions placed in so many times and so many places on their sexuality, their education, their freedom to travel, their voices" -- The 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). "Nowhere have I ever seen assembled such a quantity and diversity of material about women. Nowhere have I seen such material forged into a consistently readable, entertaining whole, unashamedly slanted in its sympathies towards women and definitely designed to instruct women of this and future generations." -- Clara Thomas, Books in Canada.