Abstract
Many histories of women in ancient societies have appeared over the past thirty years, reflecting revisionary forces in historical studies and the growing refusal to see women as merely peripheral to "event based" history. Editions featuring titles such as Women in Ancient Societies and Women in Antiquity have appeared, but these have, for the main, concentrated on women in ancient Europe, occasionally venturing as far as Egypt and Jerusalem. It has been left to specialized works on particular cultures to cover areas such as the Americas and Africa. Even the 1992 History of Women of Duby and Perrot commences with the disclaimer, "[w]hat we have written is a history of white women" (Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, "Writing the History of Women," in A History of Women, vol. 1, ed. Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot [Cambridge 1992], p. xviii.). Bella Vivante's collection of women's histories is therefore particularly welcome.
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