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.

"A key figure of the second wave." -Melissa Benn, The Guardian

About the Author
Sheila Rowbotham, who helped start the women's liberation movement in Britain, is known internationally as an historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of the ground-breaking books Women, Resistance and Revolution; Woman's Consciousness, Man's World; and Hidden from History. Her later works include Dreamers of a New Day: and Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Biography.

Reviews
Rowbotham is one of Britain's most important, if unshowy, feminist thinkers, and a key figure of the second wave. -- Melissa Benn * The Guardian *
Sheila's early writing paved the way for feminist thought and scholarship in Britain. -- Lynne Segal



Book Information
ISBN 9781781681466
Author Sheila Rowbotham
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 322g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 23mm