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 Revol...
By contrast the death rate of miners from fatal accidents was 1.1 per thousand miners actually engaged in mining. Leah L’Estrange Malone and I then coined the slogan: “It is four times as dangerous to bear a child as to work in a mine . . .”.’1 Concern about infant and maternal mortality had been...
Léon Abensour, La Femme et le Féminisme avant la Révolution, Paris, 1928, p. 430. 2. Mary Wollstonecraft, Posthumous Works, vol. 3, London, 1798, p. 30. 3. Quoted in Storr, Mary Wollstonecraft, p. 158. 4. Wollstonecraft, Posthumous Works, vol. 3, p. 65. 5. ibid., p. 48. 6. Mary Wollstonecraf...