From Eve to Dawn, A History of Women in the World, Volume I: Origins: From Prehistory to the First Millennium

By Marilyn French and Margaret Atwood

Covers Peru, Egypt, Sumer, China, India, Mexico, Greece and Rome, as well as religions from Judaism to Christianity and Islam. New introduction by Marilyn French. Preface by Margaret Atwood, who was instrumental in getting the volumes originally published in Canada. Margaret Atwood to do a possible retrospective of Marilyn French’s work in the Women’s Review of Books. Marilyn French is the author of the best-selling The Women’s Room, as well as the Feminist Press’s In the Name of Friendship. She has a devoted following of readers who buy her books. An important contribution to understanding women’s second-class status through much of history – will be important in classrooms, for amateur historians, for anyone interested in women’s impact on historical trends.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
• Release date: Apr 1, 2008
• ISBN: 9781558616196

Marilyn French

Marilyn French was a novelist and feminist. Her books include The Women’s Room, which has been translated into twenty languages; From Eve to Dawn, a History of Women in the World; A Season in Hell; Her Mother’s Daughter; Our Father; My Summer with George; and The Bleeding Heart. She died in 2009.