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Marilyn French Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Women’s Room (1977)
  2. The Bleeding Heart (1980)
  3. Her Mother’s Daughter (1987)
  4. Our Father (1994)
  5. My Summer With George (1996)
  6. The Love Children (2005)
  7. In the Name of Friendship (2006)

Non fiction series

  1. Origins (2003)
  2. Masculine Mystique (2003)
  3. Infernoes and Paradises (2003)
  4. Revolutions and Struggles for Justice in the 20th Century (2008)

Non fiction

  1. The Book as World (1976)
  2. Shakespeare’s Division of Experience (1981)
  3. Beyond Power (1985)
  4. The War Against Women (1992)
  5. A Season in Hell (1998)
  6. Women’s History of the World (1999)

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Marilyn French Books Overview

The Women’s Room

The twenty one million copy bestseller available again for a new generation of readers Originally published in 1977, The Women’s Room was a novel that for the first time expressed the inner lives of women who left education and professional advancement behind to marry in the 1950s, only to find themselves adrift and unable to support themselves after divorce in the 1970s. Some became destitute, a few went insane. But many went back to school in the heyday of the Women’s Liberation movement, and were swept up in the promise of equality for both sexes. Marilyn French’s characters represent this wide cross section of American women, and her wry and pointed voice gives depth and emotional intensity to this timeless book that remains controversial and completely relevant.

The Bleeding Heart

By the author of the groundbreaking feminist novel THE WOMEN’S ROOM, The Bleeding Heart is a compelling novel about the devastating power of marriage and the unexpected power of love. A love story for and about adults, it speaks to the hearts and minds of women and men everywhere. Dolores and Victor are both both successful, both Americans living alone in England. They meet and fall instantly in love, only to discover they agree on nothing. From the start they know they have only one year together. Their affair is sometimes bitter, always passionate, and, in the end, an extraordinary revelation for them both.’A monumental achievement.’ Cosmopolitan

Her Mother’s Daughter

A rich and compelling story about four generations of magnificent women, celebrating the love, pride, sacrifice, devotion, and unheralded triumph of all women’s lives.

Our Father

The author of The Women’s Room presents the story of a father and his four daughters, born to different mothers and living very different lives until their father’s stroke forces them into a reconciliation.BOMC Alt.

My Summer With George

In this new novel by the author of The Women’s Room and Her Mother’s Daughter, a hugely successful, middle aged writer of romance novels encounters the possibility of romantic love in her own life.

The Love Children

‘The Love Children is valuable in its exploration and depiction of the many ways in which gender can still be a limitation, even within a supposedly more enlightened society.’ Bust Magazine Marilyn French’s 1977 novel The Women’s Room epitomized the feminist movement and became one of the most influential books of our time. Now, in her last novel, she has captured the complexities of life for the daughters of The Women’s Room generation in her highly anticipated new novel The Love Children. It is the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Grateful Dead is playing on the radio and teenagers are wearing long hair and blue jeans. Jess Leighton, the daughter of a temperamental painter and a proto feminist Harvard professor, is struggling to make sense of her world amid racial tensions, Vietnam War protests, and anti government rage. With more options than her mother’s generation, but no role model for creating the life she desires, Jess experiments with sex and psychedelic drugs as she searches for happiness on her own terms. In the midst of joining and fleeing a commune, growing organic vegetables, and operating a sustainable restaurant, Jess grapples with the legacy of her mother’s generation. Marilyn French is the author of The Women’s Room, In the Name of Friendship, and From Eve to Dawn, a four volume series of women’s history throughout the world.

In the Name of Friendship

Shows women’s friendships to be the saving grace of civilization. Gloria Steinem Set in Steventon, an affluent town in the Berkshires, this finely detailed group portrait of four disparate women…
celebrates women s cherishing friendships and creativity…
the intelligent and openhearted women and men French warmly portrays are compelling. Booklist Now available in paperback, the update by the author of the classic novel The Women s Room 21 million sold worldwide explores the truth and realities behind women s lives during the landmark year 2000. Marilyn French is the best selling author of six novels. St phanie Genty is an associate professor at the Universit d’Evry Val d’Essonne.

Origins

Marilyn French draws on a vast body of research and help from consultants in all sorts of fields, to open out areas that are rarely accessible. Guardian As a reference work it’s invaluable: the bibliographies alone are worth the price. And as a warning about the appalling extremes of human behavior and male weirdness, it s indispensable. Margaret Atwood, The Times LondonIn her powerful and bold writing style, best selling author Marilyn French synthesizes women s history from our pre historical roots through the rise of states across the globe to the onset of state backed religions in this first of four readable volumes.

Masculine Mystique

Analyzing 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?Marilyn French’s The Women s Room crystallized the issues that ignited the women s movement and was translated into twenty languages. She received her PhD from Harvard and taught English at Hofstra University, Harvard University, and Holy Cross College. Internationally acclaimed author and critic Margaret Atwood is the author of numerous works of fiction, including The Handmaid s Tale and The Blind Assassin.

Infernoes and Paradises

Praise for the previous volumes: French gives us grand theory at its best…
. Highly recommended. Library Journal Beautifully sourced and referenced…
. Filled with fascinating detail and powerful arguments…
massive and valuable. Publishers WeeklyWriting about what she calls the most cheering period in female history, international best selling author Marilyn French recounts how nineteenth century women living under imperialism, industrialization, and capitalism organized for their own education, a more equitable wage, and the vote.

Revolutions and Struggles for Justice in the 20th Century

The issues French raises cannot be ignored…
. No history you will read, post French, will ever look the same again. The Times LondonFrom the author of The Women’s Room, the best selling novel that defined the issues that ignited the women s movement, comes a vibrant history of the political revolutions of the twentieth century, ending with a thoughtful investigation into feminist movements throughout the world and into the future. Marilyn French received her PhD from Harvard and taught at Harvard University and Holy Cross College. Margaret Atwood is best known for her novels The Handmaid s Tale and The Blind Assassin.

The Book as World

First published in 1976 to critical acclaim, The Book as World guides readers through the labyrinth of Joyce’s prose. French’s provocative thesis is that the ‘Ulysses’ of Joyce’s title refers not to a character in the novel, but to the reader. Therefore, the act of reading the novel is a journey of self exploration. The varied narrators, with widely differing points of view, styles, and tones, serve as guides for the reader on the internal journey. A new Introduction offers readers an overview of one of the richest works of modern fiction.

Shakespeare’s Division of Experience

William Shakespeare regarded men and women quite differently. In his early plays, the so called masculine qualities of prowess, bravery, and individualism were accorded more respect than ‘feminine’ attributes of mercy, compassion, and intuitiveness. Yet, in his later plays, there is evidence of a reversal in Shakespeare’s attitudes, a new fear of the power of the masculine principle and new admiration for the feminine. Marilyn French, author of the acclaimed novels THE WOMEN’S ROOM and THE BLEEDING HEART, offers a feminist perspective on each of Shakespeare’s plays. More than a brilliantly original literary interpretation, this fascinating volume provides penetrating insight into attitudes toward men, women, love, and power in Western culture.’A feminist’s view of William Shakespeare…
Quite dazzling.’ The New York Times’An ambitious work…
conveys the fresh excitement of interpretative discovery…
insightful…
seductive and nutritive.’ The Washington Post Book World

The War Against Women

‘Terrifying…
Impressive…
A challenging esay that justifies the feminist revival.’THE NEW YORK TIMESBestselling author and feminist scholar Marilyn French has written a shocking and fascinating analysis of the history of women’s political, cultural, physical, and economic repression that is as controversial as it is utterly convincing. In this stunning work of resarch, Ms. French creates a devastating portrait of today’s male dominated global society, with its underlying aim of destroying, subjugating, or mutilating women. Here is a devastating indictment of our values and an important step toward an urgent public discussion of human morality.

A Season in Hell

From the author of ‘The Women’s Room’ and ‘My Summer With George’ comes a compelling memoir of her victory over esophageal cancer, and her virtual return from the dead.

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