From Eve to Dawn by Marilyn French; Margaret Atwood (Foreword by)Call Number: Queensborough - Stacks - HQ1121 .F74 2008
ISBN: 9781558615656
Origins is the first of four volumes of the history of women throughout the world. Beginning in prehistory, the work moves on to examine women's 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. In accessible writing for a broad readership, three chapters depict how women's relationship to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam changed for good and bad over the centuries.