Marilyn Yalom, a wide-ranging French and gender studies scholar who wrote celebrated histories of the female breast, women and marriage, and the most powerful piece on the chess board — the queen — ...

A senior scholar at Stanford's Institute for Women and Gender who has written extensively on women's history, Yalom (A History of the Wife; etc.) sees the rise of female power throughout the centuries ...

IT’S A GOOD TIME to be alive if you’re interested in the American way of death. In January, we were treated to This Republic of Suffering, by Harvard’s president, Drew Faust. Widely, extravagantly ...

Marilyn Yalom is a senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, and the author of A History of the Wife, among other books. She lives in Palo Alto, CA, with her ...

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