Threads through time : writings on history and autobiography

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    • Rowbotham, Sheila

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Threads through time : writings on history and autobiography

Sheila Rowbotham

Penguin Books, 1999

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This collection brings together articles written since the early 1970s, many of which are out of print. Mainly about history, they include discussion of ideas in the women's movement interwoven with autobiographical accounts of Rowbotham's early life and her intellectual and political influences.

Table of Contents

  • Search and subject, threading circumstance
  • revolt in Roundhay
  • mirrors of experience
  • appreciating our beginnings
  • our lance
  • the trouble with "patriarchyu"
  • what do women want? Womna-centred values and the world as it is
  • fmeinists approaches to technology - women's values or a gender lens?
  • strategies against sweated work in Britain, 1820-1920
  • women and forms of organizing around consumption in the United States, 1880-1940
  • a new vision of society - women clothing workers and the revolution of 1848 in France
  • dear Dr Marx - a letter from a socialist feminist
  • shadowed intimacies - the letters of Marx's daughters
  • travellers in a stranger country - responses of working-class students to the university extension movement, 1873-1910
  • our party is the people - Edward Carpenter and radicalism in Sheffield
  • the Sheffield anarchists in the 1800s
  • daughter of the dream
  • forgotten possibilities - extracts from the preface and foreword to the play, "Friends of Alice Wheeldon".

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