Radical Thinkers Set 08
Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World
Sheila Rowbotham
List price £19.99
Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN:
- 9781781681466
- Published:
- 07 Jan 2014
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Dimensions:
- 288 pages - 198 x 129 x 23mm
- Availability:
- Available
- Series:
- Radical Thinkers Set 08
Categories:
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-sexual prejudice. Women, Resistance and Revolution is an invaluable historical study, as well as a trove of anecdote and example fit to inspire today's generation of feminist thinkers and activists.
Provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. This book shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice.
Sheila Rowbotham, who helped start the women's liberation movement in Britain, is known internationally as an historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of the ground-breaking books Women, Resistance and Revolution; Woman's Consciousness, Man's World; and Hidden from History. Her later works include Dreamers of a New Day: and Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Biography.