![]() Introduction copyright © 2007 by Marilyn Frenchįoreword copyright © 2004 by Margaret Atwood Published in 2008 by The Feminist Press at the City University of New York Written in concise, understated language, this is a significant addition to literature on women’s studies and history.” - Publishers Weekly Read moreīeyond Power. “She backs up even her more controversial theories with an impressive accumulation of academically accepted historical, anthropological and sociological sources . . . She also depicts how women’s relationship to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam changed for good and bad over the centuries. In her reconstruction of wars, laws, and other activities affecting both women and men, French also traces the worldviews underpinning them. ![]() 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.īeginning in prehistory, Origins moves on to examine women’s lives in ancient Egypt, China, India, Peru, Mexico, Greece, and Rome. ![]() ![]() The first volume of the New York Times–bestselling author’s monumental and unprecedented history: “Consistently thought-provoking” ( The New York Review of Books). ![]()
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