From Eve to Dawn

by French, Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9781552782682
• ISBN10: 1552782689
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: McArthur & Co Pub Ltd

Summary

This is the first instalment of the seminal three-volume work, that covers the history of women throughout the world, from earlier times to the present. Marilyn French, internationally bestselling author of The Women's Room, has spent over two decades with a team of researchers and historians examining women's roles and activities in various civilizations and societies throughout the ages. Volume 1 covers women's roles from earliest recorded history to the Dark Ages. Fascinating and thought-provoking, this new history of women from one of feminism's leading voices is an important document for our times.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	1	(6)
PART ONE: PARENTS	7	(48)
CHAPTER 1: THE MOTHERS	9	(30)
CHAPTER 2: THE FATHERS	39	(16)
PART TWO: THE RISE OF THE STATE	55	(122)
CHAPTER 3: STATE FORMATION IN PERU, EGYPT, AND SUMER	57	(49)
CHAPTER 4: A SECULAR STATE: CHINA	106	(25)
CHAPTER 5: A RELIGIOUS STATE: INDIA	131	(22)
CHAPTER 6: A MILITARISTIC STATE: MEXICO	153	(24)
PART THREE: GOD, GLORY, AND DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR	177	(108)
CHAPTER 7: JUDAISM	179	(13)
CHAPTER 8: GREECE	192	(19)
CHAPTER 9: ROME	211	(12)
CHAPTER 10: CHRISTIANITY	223	(22)
CHAPTER 11: ISLAM	245	(40)
GLOSSARY	285	(4)
NOTES	289	(24)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	313