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 |
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Page 8
... gave them an advantage when politics—negotiations among different clans—began. The women, who gathered singly although they went out together, were more bound to their own family units because they took responsibility for them. Hominids ...
... gave them an advantage when politics—negotiations among different clans—began. The women, who gathered singly although they went out together, were more bound to their own family units because they took responsibility for them. Hominids ...
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... gave me information about Europe over an amazing period—from the Roman Empire all the way through to the late Christian period; Marcia Wright and Susan Hall patiently guided me through the thicket of Africa, the history of a continent ...
... gave me information about Europe over an amazing period—from the Roman Empire all the way through to the late Christian period; Marcia Wright and Susan Hall patiently guided me through the thicket of Africa, the history of a continent ...
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... gave brides oxen, a plow, and armor; brides gave grooms weapons. Both plowed fields, went to war, and were supposed to be chaste until they were twenty. From the fourth to the seventh centuries, Franks, then Danes and Anglo-Saxons ...
... gave brides oxen, a plow, and armor; brides gave grooms weapons. Both plowed fields, went to war, and were supposed to be chaste until they were twenty. From the fourth to the seventh centuries, Franks, then Danes and Anglo-Saxons ...
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... gave a successful Frankish soldier, Charlemagne, the title of Holy Roman Emperor. In return, Charlemagne barred nuns from many activities and tried to conform secular to canon (church) law. He virtually ended bride purchase when he ...
... gave a successful Frankish soldier, Charlemagne, the title of Holy Roman Emperor. In return, Charlemagne barred nuns from many activities and tried to conform secular to canon (church) law. He virtually ended bride purchase when he ...
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... gave them some security, although there were always men who simply killed unwanted wives. Whatever the law, men with power could override it. European Women from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Centuries The Carolingian Empire collapsed in ...
... gave them some security, although there were always men who simply killed unwanted wives. Whatever the law, men with power could override it. European Women from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Centuries The Carolingian Empire collapsed in ...
Contents
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EUROPEAN APPROPRIATION OF AFRICA | 137 |
EUROPEAN APPROPRIATION OF LATIN AMERICA | 189 |
EUROPEAN APPROPRIATION OF NORTH AMERICA | 248 |
BLACK EXPERIENCE IN NORTH AMERICA | 355 |
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION | 386 |
AFTERWORD | 402 |
NOTES | 404 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 426 |
INDEX | 445 |
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