num_pages: 336
description: The first volume of the New York Times bestselling authors monumental and unprecedented Consistently thought-provoking ( The New York Review of Books ). The internationally celebrated author of The Womens Room  Marilyn French spent over fifteen years with a team of researchers and prominent historians examining womens lives and activities in civilizations and societies spanning the ages. Beginning in prehistory Origins moves on to examine womens lives in ancient Egypt China India Peru Mexico Greece and Rome. In her reconstruction of wars laws and other activities affecting both women and men French also traces the worldviews underpinning them. She also depicts how womens relationship to Judaism Christianity and Islam changed for good and bad over the centuries. She backs up even her more controversial theories with an impressive accumulation of academically accepted historical anthropological and sociological sources . . . Written in concise understated language this is a significant addition to literature on womens studies and history.  Publishers Weekly
language: English
title: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY