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âFilled with fascinating detail . . . this second volume of Frenchâs massive and valuable work is an example of scholarship and clear vision.â âPublishers Weekly  This volume of New York Timesâbestselling author Marilyn Frenchâs 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 conquerorsâ home countries. As French makes clear in this impassioned womenâs history, only with the French Revolution did the political force women exerted powerfully change the course of history.  âFrench 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.â âLibrary Journal |
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