Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It - Brossura

Rowbotham, Sheila

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0904383563 ISBN 13: 9780904383560

Casa editrice: Pluto Pr, 1992

Riassunto

In this study of women from the Puritan revolution to the 1930s, the author shows how class and sex, work and family, personal life and social pressures have shaped and hindered women's struggles for equality.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Sheila Rowbotham is a University Fellow in the Sociology Department of Manchester University. Her recent books include Women in Movement (Routledge, 1992) and with Swasti Mitter, Dignity and Daily Bread (Routledge, 1993).

Contenuti:

Acknowledgements Preface 1. Work, the family and the development of early capitalism 2. Puritans and prophetesses 3. The restoration 4. The new radicalism of the eighteenth century 5. The agricultural and industrial revolution 6. New means of resisting 7. Birth control and early nineteenth century radicalism 8. Feminism in the radical and early socialist movement 9. Middle-class women begin to organise 10. Feminism and rescue work 11. The position of working-class women in the nineteenth century 12. Women and trade unions 13. Socialism, the family and sexuality 14. The struggle for birth control at the end of the nineteenth century 15. The vote 16. Some responses to feminism in the socialist movement before 1914 17. The war 18. Anti-feminism 19. Work, trade unions and the unemployed after World War 1 20. The family and sexual radicalism 21. Motherhood and the family 22. Birth control, abortion and sexual self-determination 23. Feminism and socialism after World War 1 Postscript Bibliography Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pluto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0904383563
• ISBN 13: 9780904383560
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192