Hidden From History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It (Pluto Classics) - Hardcover

Rowbotham, Sheila

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0902818295 ISBN 13: 9780902818293

Publisher: Pluto Press, 1992

Synopsis

In this classic study of women in Britain from the Puritan revolution of the mid-seventeenth century to the 1930s, Sheila Rowbotham shows how class and sex, work and the family, personal life and social pressures have shaped and hindered women’s struggles for equality.

She explores the different effects that changes in the process of production have on middle-class and working-class women; why birth control and the organisation of working women have been perceived as threatening to traditional male control of the family; how paid work and work in the home are intricately related and determine the social valuation of women – and why these and many other issues have continued to arise in different form throughout modern history.

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Review:

'An important and valuable achievement.' -- New York Times 'I admire Sheila Rowbotham's directness. Women should be grateful for a book of this kind, which fills our inadequate record of the past' -- New Statesman 'Groundbreaking ... One of the first books to make women's history available to a wide audience.' -- Guardian

About the Author:

Sheila Rowbotham’s books have been translated into many languages and her early works are currently being reissued as classic texts of feminism. She is an Honorary Fellow in Social Science at Manchester University. Her recent work includes Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love (Verso 2008) winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/ Biography 2008 in the US and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the UK and Dreamers of a New Day (Verso 2010). She contributed 'Alice Wheeldon Revisited' to ed. Mary Davis, Class and Gender in British Labour History (Merlin, 2011).

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0902818295
• ISBN 13: 9780902818293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 182