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.

Love story of Dolores and Victor, two adults in their forties, both parents and both living in England for a year without their families.

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.

In 1977, Marilyn French inspired a generation of feminists with The Women's Room. Twenty years later she still refuses to go quietly, play with the grandchildren, and prune the roses, as women of a certain advanced age are supposed to. Instead, she has written a romantic novel, and true to her youthful vigor, it is a subversive one. French joins Doris Lessing in believing that the libido can survive old age in women as in men. At the beginning of the novel, the heroine has cast aside her self-image as a desirable woman, as society expects; but then she meets a dashing editor in his 50s, and snap--she is consumed by erotic longing. She is able to analyze intelligently the whole disturbing situation with her knowing women friends, even while she enjoys a delicious summer of romance.

Frances is the first in a chain of women who sacrifice their own pleasures for a better future for their children. She is an immigrant, left destitute in 1913 when her husband dies.

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

Explores the relationship between four half sisters as they gather for the first time as their stroke victim father fights for his life. By the author of T̀he women's room'.