Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century by Rowbotham, Sheila

Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781844677030)

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Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century by Rowbotham, Sheila

Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century

$29.95
Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century by Rowbotham, Sheila

Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. Amid the growth of globalized trade, mass production, immigration and urban slums, American and British women broke with custom and prejudice. Taking off corsets, forming free unions, living communally, buying ethically, joining trade unions, doing social work in settlements, these "dreamers of a new day" challenged ideas about sexuality, mothering, housework, the economy and citizenship.

Drawing on a wealth of research, Sheila Rowbotham has written a groundbreaking new history that shows how women created much of the fabric of modern life. These innovative dreamers raised questions that remain at the forefront of our twenty-first-century lives.

Author: Sheila Rowbotham
ISBN-10: 1844677036
ISBN-13: 9781844677030
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2011
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d
By Sheila Rowbotham
By Sheila Rowbotham
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Sheila Rowbotham is Honorary Research Fellow in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences within the Faculty of Humanities at Manchester University and Visiting Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her many books include the James Tait Black-shortlisted Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century, Promise Of A Dream: Remembering the Sixties, and Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century. She has written for, among other newspapers, the Guardian, The Times, The Independent, New Statesman, and The New York Times. She lives in Manchester.

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