ABSTRACT
First published in 1992, this book is an historical introduction to a wide range of women’s movements from the late eighteenth-century to the date of its publication. It describes economic, social and political ideas which have inspired women to organize, not only in Europe and North America, but also in the Third World.
Sheila Rowbotham outlines a long history of women’s challenges to the gender bias in political and economical concepts. She shows women laying claim to rights and citizenship, while contesting male definitions of their scope, and seeking to enlarge the meaning of economy through action around consumption and production, environmental protests and welfare projects.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |24 pages
Introduction
chapter |2 pages
General Introduction
chapter 1|11 pages
What do Women Want?
chapter 2|9 pages
Women, Power, and Politics
part I|50 pages
Rights, Sovereignty, And Emancipation
chapter 3|9 pages
The Tocsin of Reason: Women in the French Revolution
chapter 4|8 pages
A New Moral World: Early Radicals, Cooperators, and Socialists
chapter 5|10 pages
The Abolition of Slavery and Women's Emancipation
chapter 6|5 pages
Class and Community: Women and the Chartist Movement
chapter 7|8 pages
Women in Revolution: Nineteenth-Century France
chapter 8|8 pages
Equality and Individualism: Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill
part II|26 pages
Changing Personal Life
chapter 9|10 pages
Sensuous Spirits: Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin
chapter 10|8 pages
Transforming Domestic Life: Cooperatives and the State
chapter 11|6 pages
Moral Uplift, Social Purity, and Temperance
part III|62 pages
Political Movements and Social Action
chapter 12|11 pages
Nationalist Movements and Women's Place
chapter 13|8 pages
Social Reform: Protection by the State
chapter 14|7 pages
Welfare and Social Action
chapter 15|11 pages
Socialism, Women, and the New Life
chapter 16|11 pages
Marxists and the Woman Question
chapter 17|12 pages
Anarchism and Rebel Women
part IV|56 pages
Political Power: Reform and Revolution
chapter 18|13 pages
The Suffrage: Patriots and Internationalists
chapter 19|15 pages
Women and Revolution in Russia
chapter 20|14 pages
Indian Women and Self-Rule
chapter 21|12 pages
The Long March of Chinese Women
part V|35 pages
Identity and Difference
chapter 22|18 pages
Sexual Politics
chapter 23|15 pages
Battles Around Boundaries: Conflicting Strategies After World War I
part VI|62 pages
Themes for Discussion