Rowbotham, Sheila
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  1. Feminism and Rescue Work
    Chapter 10 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
    Resource Type: Article
  2. Feminism in the Radical and Early Socialist Movement
    Chapter 8 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1975
    There existed a strong minority tradition in radicalism which questioned the whole social and sexual position of women.
  3. Middle-Class Women Begin to Organise
    Chapter 9 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1975
  4. The Position of Working-Class Women in the Nineteenth Century
    Chapter 11 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
    Resource Type: Article
    Capitalism broke down the old forms of social relations both at work and between men and women in the family. Middle-class women found themselves cut off from production and economically dependent on a man: working-class women were forced into the factory and became wage-labourers.
  5. Socialism, the Family and Sexuality
    Chapter 13 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
    Resource Type: Article
  6. Woman's Consciousness, Man's World 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    The cultural and economic liberation of women is inseparable from the creation of a society in which all people no longer have their lives stolen from them, and in which the conditions of their production and reproduction will no longer be distorted or held back by the subordination of sex, race, or class.
  7. Women and Trade Unions
    Chapter 12 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
    Resource Type: Article
  8. Women, Resistance and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1974
    A wide-ranging survey of the roots of inequality and of the long but sporadic struggles to covercome it. Her narrative extends from the seventeenth century to present-day (1970s) Vietnam, showing how certain women have struggled, in both revolutionary and repressive situations, to achieve liberation.
  9. Women's Liberation and Revolution
    A Bibliography
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1973