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Women, Resistance and Revolution
A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World
Series: Verso World History
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In this classic text, Sheila Rowbotham explores four centuries of feminist struggle and revolutionary politics. She shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice. First published in 1972, Women, Resistance and Revolution is a major statement of second-wave...
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Ground-breaking exploration of the connection between social revolution and women's liberation from “a key figure of the second wave” — Melissa Benn, Guardian.
Ground-breaking exploration of the connection between social revolution and women's liberation from “a key figure of the second wave” — Melissa Benn, Guardian.
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In this classic text, Sheila Rowbotham explores four centuries of feminist struggle and revolutionary politics. She shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice. First published in 1972, Women, Resistance and Revolution is a major statement of second-wave feminism on the imperative for revolution within the revolution. It is also a rich and highly readable history of the growth of a radical consciousness from the beginnings of feminist possibility in the early-modern world.
Rowbotham charts the acceleration of feminist activity and theory after the French Revolution, despite the ambiguities of "liberty, equality, fraternity" for women. From Wollstonecraft’s Vindication to Flora Tristan’s Worker’s Union and Engels's Origin of the Family, she describes how women’s liberation became a live and explosive issue in emerging socialist movements. She traces feminist strands in modern revolutionary movements in Russia and China, including fascinating creative experiments during the early period of Bolshevik rule.
The book also considers the situation of women in anticolonial struggles in Algeria, Cuba and Vietnam. Women, Resistance and Revolution is an invaluable historical study, as well as a trove of anecdote and example.
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ISBN: 9781836742531
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Edition: New edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 232g
Pages: 288
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 Hidden from History and Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World. 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, as well as three volumes of memoir, Promise of a Dream, Daring to Hope and Reasons to Rebel.
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