Woman as a Force in History Author:Mary R Beard "Beard traces the vital impact of women on history, from the female philosophers of Greece, to the chatelaines of the Middle Ages, the brilliant hostesses of the seventeenth-and eighteenth-century French salons, the early feminists - both male and female - and the 'liberated woman' of the twentieth century." (1971 second printing of 1946 origina... more »l publication.)« less