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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.
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.
AcknowledgementsPreface1. Work, the family and the development of early capitalism2. Puritans and prophetesses3. The restoration4. The new radicalism of the eighteenth century5. The agricultural and industrial revolution6. New means of resisting7. Birth control and early nineteenth century radicalism8. Feminism in the radical and early socialist movement9. Middle-class women begin to organise10. Feminism and rescue work11. The position of working-class women in the nineteenth century12. Women and trade unions13. Socialism, the family and sexuality14. The struggle for birth control at the end of the nineteenth century15. The vote16. Some responses to feminism in the socialist movement before 191417. The war18. Anti-feminism19. Work, trade unions and the unemployed after World War 120. The family and sexual radicalism21. Motherhood and the family22. Birth control, abortion and sexual self-determination23. Feminism and socialism after World War 1PostscriptBibliographyIndex
'Groundbreaking ... One of the first books to make women's history available to a wide audience.'