Sheila Rowbotham vuelve sus pasos sobre la historia para analizar la relación real entre la liberación de las mujeres y la izquierda revolucionaria. En una genealogía de las revoluciones, nos descubre el despertar del feminismo en...
Fruto de un pensamiento excepcional para su época, "Vindicación de los derechos de la mujer" aborda la inclusión de la mujer en los principios universales de la Ilustración, así como la aplicación del...
The 1980s were a shock. Margaret Thatchers Conservative government battered left movements, painfully disrupted working-class peoples livelihoods and pressed down on many groups who faced discrimination.
Promise of a Dream is a moving, witty and poignant recollection of a time when young women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the world. Sheila Rowbotham, best known for A Century of Women , Threads Through Time and Hidden...
A groundbreaking contribution to debates on womenâs oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism, this foundational text shows how the roles women adopt within the capitalist economy have shaped ideas...
This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexu...
From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. Amid the growth of globalized trade, mass production, immigration and urban slums, American and British women...
The gay socialist writer Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A mystic advocate of, among other causes, free love, recycling, nudism, womenâ&...
Compares the lives of women in the first and third worlds, examining how women have organized forms of production themselves in the struggle towards breaking down some of the ideological barriers that colonialism and racism have built among them.
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 womenâ...