Marilyn Yalom's Books
Oct.23.2012
How the French love love! It occupies an honored place in their sense of identity, on a par with fashion, food, wine, and the rights of man. For hundreds of years, the French have championed themselves as guides to the art of love. Marilyn Yalom distills her readings of French literary works and the memories of her experiences in France to illuminate the...
May.15.2008
"The American Resting Place: Four Hundred Years of History through our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds" is a "curious, interesting, and surprisingly moving examination of the American practices of death ceremonies and burial ranging from pre-Jamestown Native-American burial mounds to our contemporary, industrialized methods." (Booklist, April 15, 2008)
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Jan.01.2004
Everyone knows that the queen is the most dominant piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. It wasn't until chess became a popular pastime for European royals during the Middle Ages that the queen was born and was gradually empowered to become the king's fierce warrior and protector.
Birth of the Chess Queen examines the five...
Feb.05.2002
A History of the Wife is a provocative and comprehensive study of how marriage has affected the lives of women from the earliest days of civilization to the 21st century. Using the modern marriage as a focal point, the distinguished cultural historian Marilyn Yalom charts the evolution of this institution in the Judeo-Christian world and discusses the role it will play in the...
May.01.1998
This engrossing work of original research is the first to consider how the breast has been perceived in the Western world from ancient days to the present - how it has been understood in religion, in the arts, in medicine, in psychoanalysis (by Freud as erotically secondary to the phallus, then by Melanie Klein as the original object of desire).
Jan.01.1995
The promises of "liberty, equality, and fraternity" did not extend to women, but with the publication of Blood Sisters, the voices of the women who witnessed the French Revolution are finally restored to history. They left us an invaluable legacy - some eighty accounts of what they saw and experienced. These chronicles range from the sixteen-page testimonial of the Widow Bault,...
About Marilyn
Marilyn Yalom is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women’s Memory, A History of the Breast, A History of the Wife, Birth of the Chess Queen, and The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History through...
Causes Marilyn Yalom Supports
Planned Parenthood, Glide Foundation The Global Fund for Women, Amnesty International, Friends Outside