From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume III: Infernos and Paradises: The Triumph of Capitalism in the 19th Century

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Writing about what she calls the "most cheering period in female history," Marilyn French recounts how nineteenth-century women living under imperialism, industrialization, and capitalism nonetheless organized for their own education, a more equitable wage, and the vote.

Focusing on the United States, Great Britain, and countries in Africa, French argues that cap...