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From Eve to Dawn, A History of Women in the World, Volume I: Origins: from Prehistory to the First Millennium

Overview

The first volume of a three-volume work, this book is the culmination of over two decades of exhaustive research examining women's roles and activities during various civilizations through the world from the perspective of our foremost feminist thinkers. Origins covers women's roles from earliest recorded history to the Dark ages.

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Author Information

Marilyn French

Marilyn French was a pioneering feminist thinker best known for her novels The Women's Room, The Bleeding Daughter and Her Mother 's Daughter. The Women's Room has sold over seven million copies and appeared on The New York Times Book Review Bestseller List for almost a year. McArthur & Company published her trilogy From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in 2003.

Margaret Atwood

Born November 18, 1939, in Ottawa, Canada, Margaret Atwood spent her early years in the northern Quebec wilderness. Settling in Toronto in 1946, she continued to spend summers in the northern woods. This experience provided much of the thematic material for her verse. Atwood began her writing career as a poet, short story writer, cartoonist, and reviewer for her high school paper. She attended Victoria College, University of Toronto, from 1957-1961. She received her A. M. at Radcliff College of Harvard University in 1962. Atwood's first book of verse, Double Persephone, was published in 1961 and was awarded the E. J. Pratt Medal. She has published numerous books of poetry, novels, story collections, critical work, juvenile work, and radio and teleplays. Many of her novels focus on women's issues. Atwood lectured in English Literature at University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Sir George Williams University, Montreal; and York University, Toronto. She served as writer in residence at University of Toronto; University of Alabama; New York University; and Macquarie University, North Rye, Australia. Awards for her poetry and fiction include the Governor General's Award in 1966 for The Circle Game and in 1986 for The Handmaid's Tale. The Handmaid's Tale was also filmed in 1990 and short-listed for the Booker Prize, as was Cat's Eye in 1989.

Editorial Reviews

In her foreword to this first volume of a four-volume work, Atwood writes that women "are not a footnote" to history, but rather "the necessary center around which the wheel of power revolves." That is the view that novelist and memoirist French (The Women's Room) satisfyingly supports. As in any survey, much of this volume reads schematically ("For 99 percent of hominid and human existence, people lived in egalitarian matricentry"), and like many historians, French has an agenda-but she backs up even her more controversial theories with an impressive accumulation of academically accepted historical, anthropological and sociological sources. French covers her material vividly as she discusses the formation of the gendered state in Peru, Egypt, Sumer and China and then surveys the differences between the formation of secular and religious states. The volume ends with a detailed analysis of the position of women in early Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and it's here that French's precise methodology really comes to life, though some will debate her interpretations. Written in concise, understated language, this is a significant addition to literature on women's studies and history. (May)

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Product Details

  • Published by

    The Feminist Press

  • Publish Date

    March 31, 2008 

  • Print ISBN

    1558615652

  • eBook ISBN

    9781558616196

  • Imprint

    The Feminist Press

  • Filesize

    3.45 MB

  • Number of Print Pages*

    336

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