From Eve to Dawn: Masculine Mystique from Feudalism to the French Revolution v. 2

This title presents women's history: spanning from Europe to Japan, from the fifth century to the eighteenth. Analysing feudalism in Europe and Japan and European expropriation of lands and peoples across the globe, Marilyn French poses a provocative question: how and why did women, with no power or independence, nourish and preserve the family unit and their own culture?