Hidden From History
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A01=Sheila Rowbotham
Author_Sheila Rowbotham
birth control
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early socialist movement
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women's struggles
Product details
- ISBN 9780904383560
- Weight: 254g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 20 Sep 1992
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
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 books include Hidden from History, Beyond the Fragments, A Century of Women and Threads Through Time.
