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The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Groundsby Marilyn YalomISBN 0618624279 (0-618-62427-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Birth Of The Chess Queenby Marilyn YalomISBN 0060090650 (0-06-009065-0)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Birth Of The Chess Queen'Book summary:Everyone knows that the queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. In India, Persia, and the Arab lands, where the game was first played, a general, or vizier (chief counselor to the king), occupied the square where the queen now stands. Not until the year 1000, two hundred years after Arab conquerors brought chess to southern Europe, did a chess queen appear on the board. Initially she was the weakest piece, moving only one square at a time on the diagonal, yet by 1497, during the reign of Isabella of Castile, the chess queen had become the formidable force she is today.
How and why did this transformation take place? Birth of the Chess Queen examines the five-hundred-year period between the chess queen's timid emergence and her elevation into the game's mightiest piece. Marilyn Yalom, inspired by a handful of surviving medieval chess queens, traces their origin and spread from Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and England to Scandinavia and Russia. In a lively and engaging narrative, Yalom draws parallels between the birth of the chess queen and the ascent of female sovereigns in Europe, presenting a layered, fascinating history of medieval courts, with their intrigues and internal struggles for power. Further, she shows the connection between the chess queen, the cult of the Virgin Mary, and the cult of Romantic Love, all of which influenced European society for centuries to come.
Illustrated with beautiful art throughout, this book takes a fresh look at the politics and culture of medieval Europe, the institution of queenship, and the reflections of royal power in the figure of the chess queen.
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Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memoryby Marilyn YalomISBN 0044409184 (0-04-440918-4)
Softcover, Pandora Press
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Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Centuryby Diane Middlebrook, Marilyn Yalom , Diane Wood MiddlebrookISBN 047208061X (0-472-08061-X)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Centuryby Marilyn Yalom , Diane Middlebrook, Stanford UniversityISBN 0472100661 (0-472-10066-1)
Hardcover, University of Michigan Press
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A History of the Breastby Marilyn YalomISBN 0044409133 (0-04-440913-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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- A History of the Breast: ISBN 0345388941 (0-345-38894-1)
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Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - A History of the Breast: ISBN 0679434593 (0-679-43459-3)
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A History of the Wifeby Marilyn YalomISBN 0060931566 (0-06-093156-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Wife'Book summary:The cultural historian who gave us A History of the Breast takes stock of the wife from her conception by the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans to her 20th-century manifestation as the New Woman. Beginning with the charter myth for the Judeo-Christian wife (Adam and Eve), Marilyn Yalom explains the religious, legal, and social practices of ancient civilizations that provided the template for the idea of wife as property of and subservient to her husband, with a role limited to mother and housekeeper. What she discovers is that the recent transformation of wifehood from sexless stay-at-home dependent to sexy supermom is actually the distillation of changes that have been going on for a long time, say a couple of thousand years. In fact, what makes Yalom's passage through time so fascinating is the steady rise and fall and rise again of the status of the wife and her struggle for greater autonomy. There are plenty of surprises: the first reciprocal marriages were actually had in Roman times; divorce became popular around the same time that monogamy was instituted; and while it's true that Puritans punished adultery harshly, it was they who brought the concepts of mutual love and lovemaking (other than for procreation) to America. The growing tension between women's impulses towards emancipation and the reaction against it was a quickly repeating theme in the 20th century, best exemplified by a WWII ad of a working woman pledging to "guard every bit of Beauty that he cherishes in me."
The wives in this revelatory genealogy resonate with the aid of illuminating stories and the lively voices found in letters and diaries. Through these, Yalom lithely demonstrates that the fantasy of the selfless devoted wife has always had an ineluctable twin, the archetypal powerful woman--and vice versa. While college women in the 1970s may have declared that "the idea that a woman's place is in the home is nonsense," Yalom points out that society still acts like every breadwinner has a stay-at-home wife, and the anxieties that are raised in advice columns today are not that different from those a hundred years ago. Greater independence and equality have not, as feared, led to the abandonment of the marital institution, nor many of the issues that haunt it. --Lesley Reed [via]
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Indianaby Marilyn YalomISBN 0451525728 (0-451-52572-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Indiana'Book summary:A new translation of the irreverent and bohemian nineteenth-century French writer's first novel concerns the liaison between an intelligent woman trapped in a brutal marriage and a worldly young nobleman. Reprint. [via]
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Inside the American Couple: New Thinking/New Challengesby Marilyn Yalom , Laura L. CarstensenISBN 0520229576 (0-520-22957-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madnessby Marilyn YalomISBN 0271003987 (0-271-00398-7)
Hardcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness'Book summary:This book explores the interrelationship between the option and experience of motherhood and the experience of mental breakdown as vividly communicated by 20th-century women writers. The focus is on three writers- Sylvia Plath, Marie Cardinal, and Margaret Atwood- but others are included, such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Sexton, Virginia Woolf, and Emma Santos.Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness calls attention to the ways in which maternity and motherhood represent common forms of apprehension for all women, reactivating the fear of death that has been discovered and repressed in childhood, and, in some instances, contributing directly to mental breakdown. It offers evidence of the particular stresses encountered by highly gifted women who try to negotiate their way between creation and procreation and 'write their way out' of madness. [via]
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Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questionsby Marilyn Yalom , Barrie Thorne, Stanford UniversityISBN 0582282659 (0-582-28265-9)
Softcover, Longman
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Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Genderby Marilyn Yalom , Barrie Thorne, Stanford UniversityISBN 0791404358 (0-7914-0435-8)
Hardcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Women Writers of the West Coast: Speaking of Their Lives and Careersby Marilyn YalomISBN 0809540533 (0-8095-4053-3)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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