Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. With a foreword by Margaret Atwood. In her powerful and bold writing style, best-selling author Marilyn French synthesizes women's history from our prehistorical roots through the rise of states across the globe to the onset of state-backed religions in this first of four readable volumes.

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Marilyn French's views have always been unapologetically radical. Her work stresses that women's suppression is an integral function of the male-dominated global culture, both on the domestic and international front. She is best known for her first novel, the 21-million-copy bestseller The Women's Room, which is considered one of the most influential works of the modern feminist movement, and, more recently, its sequel, In the Name of Friendship. She spent fifteen years researching and writing her immensely readable four volume women's history series FROM EVE TO DAWN: A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD. Her other nonfiction works include Beyond Power: On Women Men, and Morals, The War against Women, and her memoir on her battle with esophageal cancer, A Season in Hell. She died in May 2009.