Marilyn French Libri

Frances è la prima di una catena di donne che sacrificano i propri piaceri per un futuro migliore per i loro figli. È un'immigrata, ridotta in miseria nel 1913 quando suo marito muore.

The second volume of this compelling history delves into the role of women from feudal times through the French Revolution, highlighting their societal contributions and experiences. Marilyn French examines the evolving status of women, exploring themes of power, oppression, and resistance within historical contexts, providing a rich narrative that uncovers the complexities of women's lives throughout this transformative period.

Present a history of women from prehistoric times up to the present day, examining the changing roles of women in different ages, and covering such topics as work, marriage, family, sex roles, religion, and poltics.

Bestselling 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.

The classic feminist novel, reissued for its 30th anniversary.

The first volume in a three-volume work, From Eve to Dawn is the culmination of over two decades of exhaustive research examining women's roles and activities in various civilisations throughout the world from the perspective of one of our foremost feminist thinkers. schovat popis

A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural Massachusetts Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her hard-drinking adoptive father. Their isolated village stifles her, and his behaviour increasingly disturbs her. When a young city architect visits for the summer, it offers Charity the chance to break free. But as they embark on an intense affair, will it bring her another kind of trap? Regarded by Edith Wharton as among her best novels, Summer caused a sensation in 1917 with its honest depiction of a young woman overturning the rules of her day and attempting to live on her own terms.

"FRENCH'S MOST FOCUSED, DARING, AND POWERFUL NOVEL."--New WomanFamed presidential advisor Stephen Upton has suffered a stroke, and his four very different daughters gather in his perfectly appointed mansion outside Boston to await his death or recovery. Elizabeth, cold and calculating, fights hard for every success and pays a high price; beautiful Mary has always needed a man to support her tastes, but time is catching up with her; Alex can't remember her childhood and wants to know why; and Ronnie, illegitimate and proud, refuses to acknowledge her feelings for the man they all love and hate. In the weeks to come, they will learn one another's terrible secrets, and the astonishing truth about the life they might have shared....Once again, Marilyn French has written an extraordinary novel of our times--a novel of family love and resentment, of sisterhood and fatherhood, of acceptance and rejection and the search for peace."SHOULD STRIKE A CHORD WITH EVERY WOMAN who is willing to think honestly about the place of femaleness in the world."--Chicago Tribune

Love story of Dolores and Victor, two adults in their forties, both parents and both living in England for a year without their families.

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 writers in this anthology aim to offer honest and heartfelt perspectives on the strength and significance of mother-daughter ties. They explore the enormous diversities and depths that make up a daughter's relationship with her mother.

Contains interviews by critics and scholars with some of the foremost women writers, including Maya Angelou, A S Byatt, Luce Irigaray, Erica Jong, Jeanne Moreau, and Grace Paley.

Mit 13 Jahren wird Lowan in den Harem eines mächtigen Fürsten verkauft. Zunächst ist sie glücklich, da ein Leben im Überfluss auf sie zu warten scheint. Eine Geschichte aus Tausendundeiner Nacht.

Een middelbare vrouw kijkt met groot inlevingsvermogen, maar ook afstand terug op haar leven als adolescent en jong volwassene in de Verenigde Staten in de jaren '60 en '70.

De vriendschap van vier vrouwen in een Amerikaans provinciestadje.

In Een zomer vol liefde zijn twee bijzondere liefdesromans samengebracht: Mijn zomer met George van Marilyn French en De stoptrein naar Milaan van Lisa St Aubin de Terán. In Mijn zomer met George vertelt Marilyn French (New York, 1929) het verhaal van Hermione, een succesvol schrijfster van damesromans, die ondanks haar vier eerdere huwelijken blijft geloven in de ware liefde. De test komt wanneer ze George ontmoet. Lisa St Aubin de Terán (Londen, 1953) beschrijft in De stoptrein naar Milaan de lotgevallen van het bohémienechtpaar Lisaveta en César, die zonder duidelijke bestemming, zonder vaste verblijfplaats en zonder vaste bron van inkomsten rondtrekken door Europa, met als enig ijkpunt in hun bestaan de stoptrein naar Milaan.

Een succesvolle 60-jarige schrijfster van damesromans wordt verliefd op de hoofdredacteur van een krant; zijn onduidelijkheid over hun verhouding bezorgt haar een zomer vol emoties en romantische twijfels.

In ihren bewegenden Erinnerungen schildert Marilyn French ihren murigen Kampf gegen die tödliche Krankheit mit der Einsicht und Offenheit, die Millionen von Leser und Leserinnen aus ihren erfolgreichen Romanen kennen. Sie beschreibt eindringlich die Auseinandersetzungen mit Ärzten und Behörden, sowie das Leben nach ihrer folgenschweren Erkrankung

Cornelia Holfelder-von der Tann, geboren 1950, beschloss nach dem Studium (Anglistik, Germanistik, Romanistik) und einem Lehramtsreferendariat, es mit dem literarischen Übersetzen zu probieren und ist seither hauptberuflich dabeigeblieben. 2021 wurde sie mit dem Übersetzerpreis für langjähriges Übersetzen, „Rebekka“, ausgezeichnet. Marilyn French, 1929 in New York geboren, unterrichtete ab 1964 englische Literatur u. a. in Harvard, wo sie 1972 mit einer Arbeit über James Joyce promovierte. Ihr Bestseller «Frauen» wurde erstmals 1977 veröffentlicht und in über 20 Sprachen übersetzt. Marilyn French starb 2009 in New York.

De vriendschap van vier vrouwen in een Amerikaans provinciestadje.

Geschiedenis van de mensheid en de menselijke moraal vanuit feministische optiek.

Een succesvolle 60-jarige schrijfster van damesromans wordt verliefd op de hoofdredacteur van een krant; zijn onduidelijkheid over hun verhouding bezorgt haar een zomer vol emoties en romantische twijfels.