{"product_id":"women-resistance-and-revolution-by-sheila-rowbotham","title":"Women, Resistance and Revolution by Sheila Rowbotham","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Compelling … a classic socialist feminist text’ - Kate Hardy, Feminist Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Ground-breaking exploration of the connection between social revolution and women's liberation from “a key figure of the second wave' - Melissa Benn,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen, Resistance and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, Sheila Rowbotham traces four centuries of fem-inist struggle and revolutionary politics. She reveals how women have confronted the dual challenges of an unjust state system and patriarchal social prejudice. First published in 1972,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen, Resistance and Revolution\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis a major statement of second-wave feminism on the need for revolution within the revolution. It is also a rich and expansive history of radical consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRowbotham charts the acceleration of feminist activity and theory after the French Revolution, despite the ambiguities of ‘liberty, equality, fraternity’ for women. Sheexamines pivotal works such as Mary Wollstonecraft’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVindication of the Rights ofWoman\u003c\/i\u003e, Flora Tristan’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorkers’ Union\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand Engels’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrigin of the Family\u003c\/i\u003e, showing how women’s liberation became a live and often explosive issue in emerging social-ist movements. Her narrative spans feminist currents in revolutionary Russia and China, exploring fascinating creative experiments during early Bolshevik rule, and extends to women’s roles in anti-colonial struggles in Algeria, Cuba and Vietnam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis classic work remains as urgent, vivid and inspiring as ever.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dotters Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52047759573285,"sku":"9781836742531","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2167\/5269\/files\/9781836742531.jpg?v=1772574177","url":"https:\/\/dottersbooks.com\/products\/women-resistance-and-revolution-by-sheila-rowbotham","provider":"Dotters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}