Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them: From Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich

Originally published in 1982, with characteristic energy, humour and learning Dale Spender traces three hundred years of women’s ideas. She uncovers not only the ways and words of women, but the methods of men. While men control knowledge, she argues, they are in a position to take women’s ideas. If they like them, they use them; if they don’t, they lose them.

Every fifty years women are required to reinvent the wheel, for every generation of women is initiated into a world in which women’s ...