Marilyn French Livres

The second volume of this compelling history delves into the role of women from feudal times through the French Revolution, highlighting their societal contributions and experiences. Marilyn French examines the evolving status of women, exploring themes of power, oppression, and resistance within historical contexts, providing a rich narrative that uncovers the complexities of women's lives throughout this transformative period.

Present a history of women from prehistoric times up to the present day, examining the changing roles of women in different ages, and covering such topics as work, marriage, family, sex roles, religion, and poltics.

An enthralling narrative about the lives of four generations of women, Her Mother's Daughter is the most honest and moving novel ever written about the primal, inescapable bond between mothers and daughters.

The first volume in a three-volume work, From Eve to Dawn is the culmination of over two decades of exhaustive research examining women's roles and activities in various civilisations throughout the world from the perspective of one of our foremost feminist thinkers. schovat popis

"FRENCH'S MOST FOCUSED, DARING, AND POWERFUL NOVEL."--New WomanFamed presidential advisor Stephen Upton has suffered a stroke, and his four very different daughters gather in his perfectly appointed mansion outside Boston to await his death or recovery. Elizabeth, cold and calculating, fights hard for every success and pays a high price; beautiful Mary has always needed a man to support her tastes, but time is catching up with her; Alex can't remember her childhood and wants to know why; and Ronnie, illegitimate and proud, refuses to acknowledge her feelings for the man they all love and hate. In the weeks to come, they will learn one another's terrible secrets, and the astonishing truth about the life they might have shared....Once again, Marilyn French has written an extraordinary novel of our times--a novel of family love and resentment, of sisterhood and fatherhood, of acceptance and rejection and the search for peace."SHOULD STRIKE A CHORD WITH EVERY WOMAN who is willing to think honestly about the place of femaleness in the world."--Chicago Tribune

By the author of the groundbreaking feminist novel The Women's Room , The Bleeding Heart is a compelling novel about the devastating power of marriage -- and the unexpected power of love. A love story for and about adults, it speaks to the hearts and minds of women and men everywhere. Dolores and Victor are both successful, both Americans living alone in England. They meet and fall instantly in love, only to discover they agree on nothing. From the start they know they have only one year together. Their affair is sometimes bitter, always passionate, and, in the end, an extraordinary revelation for them both.

In this new novel by the author of The Women's Room and Her Mother's Daughter, a hugely successful, middle-aged writer of romance novels encounters the possibility of romantic love in her own life.