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Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Womens Memory
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The voices of the women who witnessed the French Revolution are finally restored to history. Yalom focuses on the most unforgettable chronicles: the governess of the royal children; the servant attending Marie-Antoinette in her last days; Robespierre's sister, Charlotte; and others bound together by a common nightmare.
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History of the Wife
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This cultural study covers three millennia in Western history and traces attitudes and law as they applied to women once they entered into marriage and became wives.The author presents a broad overview and much research on specific times and places, and uses primary sources when they were available.
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Efronia: An Armenian Love Story
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Stina Katchadourian, Marilyn Yalom (Designer)
When eighty-two-year-old Efronia Katchadourian fled civil war in Lebanon for the United States in 1976 she brought little except pistachio nuts, dried figs, dates, and the searing memory of her secret, lost love. Efronia was born in 1894 to a Christian Armenian family living in the Ottoman empire. Though her father was brutally murdered when she ...
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The American Resting Place: Four Hundred Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
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Marilyn Yalom, Reid S Yalom (Photographer)
This sweeping history of America, as seen through its gravestones, graveyards, and burial practices, is stunningly illustrated with 80 black-and-white photographs.
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A History of the Breast
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A cultural history of the breast focusing on its erotic, religious, political and commercial associations - from medieval Madonnas to 1950's torpedo cups and todays emaciated waif models. It demonstrates how reactions to the breast - the ultimate symbol of femininity - have acted as a barometer for the political and social positions of women in ...
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Inside the American Couple
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Marilyn Yalom (Editor), Laura Carstensen (Editor), Estelle B Freedman (Editor)
One of the most fundamental human urges is to form a pair. Despite many tendencies that threaten traditional marriage and even make committed cohabitation problematic, very few people live through adulthood without at least one lengthy relationship, and up to 90 percent of Americans marry at least once in their lives. This volume draws attention ...
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A Disgraceful Affair: Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bianca Lamblin-Women's Life Writings from Around the World
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Bianca Lamblin, Julie Plovnick (Translator), Marilyn Yalom (Foreword by)
In this intimate memoir, Bianca Lamblin tells the story of her menage a trois with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and their abandonment of her, a Jew, at the onset of World War II.
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Women Writers of the West Coast: Speaking of Their Lives and Careers
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Marilyn Yalom (Editor), Margo Davis (Photographer)
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Birth of the Chess Queen: A History
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A history of the chess queen's symbolism of Western female power discusses how the game was played prior to the piece's creation one thousand years ago, the changes to the queen's mobility over the course of five hundred years, and the piece's reflection of female royalty in medieval Europe.
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Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions
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University Press Northeastern, Barry Thorne, Marilyn Yalom (Editor)
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Dreamscapes and Hidden Faces: The Collages of Joanne Freeman
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Joanne Freeman, Marilyn Yalom
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Inside the American Couple: New Thinking, New Challenges
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One of the most fundamental human urges is to form a pair. Despite many tendencies that threaten traditional marriage and even make committed cohabitation problematic, very few people live through adulthood without at least one lengthy relationship, and up to 90 percent of Americans marry at least once in their lives. This volume draws attention ...
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Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness
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Historia del Pecho
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Historia de La Esposa
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Le temps des orages : aristocrates, bourgeoises et paysannes racontent
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