Rowbotham, Sheila (1943–)

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Rowbotham, Sheila (1943–)

British social historian and feminist. Born 1943 in Leeds, England; attended universities of Oxford and London.

An important figure in British feminist politics, worked as a teacher in schools and tertiary institutions; became involved in Women's Liberation movement and socialist politics and was on editorial board of radical paper Black Dwarf; writings include A New World for Women (1971), Woman, Resistance and Revolution (1973), Woman's Consciousness, Man's World (1973), Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight against it (1973), (with Segal and Wainwright) Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism (1979), Dreams and Dilemmas (1983), Women in Movement (1993), Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World (1995) and Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties (2000).

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