Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History Of Women And Revolution In The Modern World

by Sheila Rowbotham

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781681466
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Series:	Radical Thinkers , #8
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Sheila Rowbotham is Honorary Research Fellow in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences within the Faculty of Humanities at Manchester University and Visiting Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her many books include the James Tait Black–shortlisted Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love and Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction 11

Chapter 1 Impudent Lasses 15

Chapter 2 Utopian Proposals 36

Chapter 3 Dialectical Disturbances 59

Chapter 4 Dreams and Dilemmas 78

Chapter 5 Bread and Roses 99

Chapter 6 If You Like Tobogganing 134

Chapter 7 When the Sand-Grouse Flies to Heaven 170

Chapter 8 Colony Within the Colony 200

Bibliography 249

Notes 261

Index 275

Editorial Reviews

Rowbotham is one of Britain’s most important, if unshowy, feminist thinkers, and a key figure of the second wave.” —Melissa Benn, Guardian
 
“Sheila’s early writing paved the way for feminist thought and scholarship in Britain.” —Lynne Segal

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