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Since the beginning of modern times it has been widely accepted that the rights of women in the biblical world, in both private and public spheres, went from bad to worse from the Bronze Age through the Christian era. The data which Gruber presents in Women in Ancient Israel and Early Judaisms demonstrates that women in ancient Levant played many more roles in the public sphere than we might have imagined and the extent of their participation in public life was far more varied than is commonly assumed. The data and argumentation included force the reader to abandon numerous stereotypes...

In this book the author explores the sociological foundations of domestic design in eighteenth-century France, the acknowledged leader of domestic architecture in this period. Focusing on the Place Vendome, which was developed by the financiers of Paris, she examines the representational strategies and dilemmas of French elites, which were crucial to the formation of a French mode of design. Through analyses of social distinctions and ambitions, Ziskin explores the manner in which the dwellings of the Place Vendome embodied beliefs about the nature of society and the appropriate relations...