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This second of four volumes, moves quickly from feudalism to the French revolution. Firmly rooted in more modern history, novelist and scholar French (The Women's Room) writes less theoretically and more concretely than in volume 1. Beautifully sourced and referenced, the book shows, for instance, that in the 1400s Protestant and Catholic theologians transformed marriage from a private arrangement into a complex public ceremony that granted men more power. Women came to have less and less say in when and whom they would wed. Discussing the colonization of Africa, French illustrates how traditional, more egalitarian African gender roles were altered under European property-based, Christian social structures. French also begins to focus on how female sexuality was interpreted by a male-dominated culture. Marie Antoinette, for example, was convicted and executed not only for supporting her husband but for sexually corrupting the dauphin and thus the body politic. Filled with fascinating detail and powerful arguments, this second volume of French's massive and valuable work is an example of scholarship and clear vision. (May)
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This review is from: The Masculine Mystique: From Feudalism to the French Revolution: A History of Women in the World (Paperback)
French's History of Women would be improved by a more formal writing style and a more meticulous sourcing of ideas. Her tone in this volume is often sarcastic; her writing style, a little informal. What she gains in readability, she loses in credibility. She would be better served by attributing strong ideas to their sources in the text of the writing wherever possible, and responding to the scholarly conversations of others. As it is, much of the book comes off as a rant. French leaves it up to the reader to chase down the references in the back of the book and to determine their relative place in the scholarship of women's history. A survey of the history of women ought to inform the reader of the most important voices in this area. To know whom to read, and to have a sense of context, is an important part of the reader's self-education process.
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