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Marilyn Yalom

    Marilyn Yalom was a professor of French and comparative literature and the director of a research institute for women. Her work focused on literary criticism and women's history, blending academic rigor with an accessible style. Her essays and books explore complex social and cultural issues through careful analysis and engaging narratives. Yalom was known for her ability to make challenging subjects understandable to a broad audience, and her writing continues to inspire readers and scholars alike.

    Marilyn Yalom
    The Amorous Heart
    Birth of the Chess Queen
    How the French Invented Love
    A History of the Wife
    Innocent Witnesses
    A Matter of Death and Life
    • A Matter of Death and Life

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      4.4(3951)Add rating

      "A co-written project by Irvin and Marilyn Yalom, which describes their heartbreaking journey as a couple married 65 years facing the end of their long partnership. A longtime teacher and therapist on the subject of death anxiety, Dr. Yalom now confronts the loss of his wife and his own mortality. This book will offer wisdom from one of the foremost existential psychiatrists and illuminate the importance of relationships-friendship, family, and romantic-as we all age"--

      A Matter of Death and Life
    • Innocent Witnesses

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      4.1(45)Add rating

      "This book is an effort to understand the effects of the experience on children of living through World War II in Europe and United States. It is based exclusively on first-person accounts recorded by people Marilyn Yalom had known closely as adults and after decades-long conversations with them. These friends convey wartime memories from childhood years spent in France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, England, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Holland. In addition to their recollections, Marilyn Yalom added her own wartime memories-those of an American girl safely protected in Washington, D.C., while bombs dropped on my counterparts abroad"-- Provided by publisher

      Innocent Witnesses
    • A History of the Wife

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
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      Marilyn Yalom explores the transformation of marriage from a religious duty in medieval Europe to a source of personal fulfillment in modern America. She examines the rise of romantic love and the evolving purpose of marriage for women, providing an insightful historical analysis of this institution amidst contemporary changes.

      A History of the Wife
    • How the French Invented Love

      Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading
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      Exploring the deep-rooted French culture of romance, Marilyn Yalom delves into how love is celebrated through various forms of art, including literature, paintings, and cinema. She highlights the belief that a French person devoid of romantic desire is akin to someone lacking essential senses. Yalom's scholarly examination reveals the core principles that have shaped the French understanding of love over centuries, offering insights into the societal norms surrounding amorous relationships in France.

      How the French Invented Love
    • Birth of the Chess Queen

      A History

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
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      The evolution of chess is explored through the fascinating history of the queen piece, which emerged after five centuries without her. Initially absent from the game, the queen's introduction coincided with chess's rise in popularity among European royals in the Middle Ages. Over time, she transformed into a formidable force on the board, serving as both a fierce warrior and protector of the king, reflecting broader societal changes in gender roles and power dynamics.

      Birth of the Chess Queen
    • The Amorous Heart

      • 277 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
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      An eminent scholar unearths the captivating history of the two-lobed heart symbol, shedding light on how we have expressed love since antiquity

      The Amorous Heart
    • Revealing Lives

      • 255 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      In this book gender is the lens through which autobiography and biography are scrutinized. The authors show what is revealed when they magnify the gendered aspects of both men’s and women’s writing. The eternal questions of identity, choice, responsibility, happiness, tragedy, and even death are interpreted in terms of gender analysis. The book presents a sequence of studies from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century that includes individuals such as American poet Anne Sexton and German writers Christa Wolf and Paul Celan, and groups such as nineteenth-century Mexican women and members of the British working class. It extends the paradigm of “self-reflexive” literature to include and highlight the overlap between autobiography and biography, especially in the case of women who often wrote their lives obliquely through the biographies of their famous male relatives, e. g., Adèle Hugo and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. The authors refuse to accept a monolithic conception of gender. The studies of Charles and Mary Lamb, Nadezhda Durova, and John Stuart Mill demonstrate that even in the nineteenth century, a binary gender system is inadequate as a mode of approach to actual life stories.

      Revealing Lives
    • Die Unschuld der Opfer

      Kindheit im Zweiten Weltkrieg

      Das Vermächtnis der großen Kulturhistorikerin Marilyn Yalom »Wir sind die letzten Zeitzeugen, die den Zweiten Weltkrieg noch erlebt haben, und bald werden wir nicht mehr da sein. Dieses Buch möchte ich als ein Zeugnis und eine Mahnung hinterlassen in der Hoffnung, dass diese Lebenswege uns die Sinnlosigkeit des Krieges vor Augen führen. Gerade jetzt, in Zeiten des wiedererstarkenden Nationalismus und eskalierender Konflikte weltweit mögen uns diese Schicksale dazu bringen, uns zu fragen, ob auch unsere Kinder und Enkelkinder zu Opfern machthungriger Erwachsener werden.« Marilyn Yalom

      Die Unschuld der Opfer
    • Das Herz

      Eine besondere Geschichte der Liebe

      »Ein charmanter und äußerst ungewöhnlicher Blick auf das Herz und seine Bedeutung für unsere Kultur.« Erstmals auf Deutsch Das Herz begegnet uns überall: ob als Schmuckstück oder auf dem Grabstein, als Emoji oder auf dem Cappuccinoschaum. Marilyn Yalom, Spezialistin für Gender Studies und erfolgreiche Sachbuchautorin, wirft einen ebenso fundierten wie spannenden Blick auf den weltweiten Siegeszug des Symbols für die Liebe schlechthin. Von den Anfängen des Christentums zu mittelalterlicher Minne, von Shakespeares Dramen zur Popkultur unserer Tage. Das Herz steht für die Liebe in allen Facetten: ob weltlich oder geistig, erotisch oder keusch. Eine wunderbare Tour de Force durch die Kulturgeschichte des Herzens. Ausstattung: Mit durchgehenden s/w-Zeichnungen (35)

      Das Herz
    • Freundinnen – jede Frau hat sie, jeder braucht sie. In der heutigen westlichen Welt gilt Freundschaft unter Frauen als Selbstverständlichkeit. Doch ein Blick zurück zeigt: noch vor einigen Jahrhunderten waren »Freundinnen« so gut wie unbekannt, Freundschaften unter Frauen waren verpönt. In der Antike galten Frauen als das schwache Geschlecht, nur Männer seien intellektuell und emotional fähig, wirklich tiefgehende Freundschaften zu entwickeln und zu pflegen. Und auch heute noch gibt es Kulturen, in denen Frauen keine eigenständigen Freundschaften pflegen dürfen. Anhand zahlreicher Quellen werfen Marilyn Yalom und ihre Co-Autorin Theresa Donovan Brown einen höchst informativen und unterhaltsamen Blick auf die Entwicklung und das Verständnis von Frauenfreundschaft im Wandel der Zeit: von der Bibel und den Römern bis zur Aufklärung, von der Frauenbewegung der 60er Jahre bis zu Sex and the City. Ausstattung: Evtl. mit Abbildungen

      Freundinnen