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World War politics, universal suffrage, huge global migrations. Maternal welfare, the sexual revolution, the transformation of working womenıs lives. In A Century of Women renowned social and feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham charts, decade by decade, a century of changes and interchanges in the lives of women and the ways they themselves have determined the course of history. From the nameless women who marched for the vote, stood on picket lines, and refused to ride segregated buses, to the politicians, poets, and film stars whose faces are legendary, their stories are told in rich detail. Entertaining essays, interspersed throughout, discuss body and image, popular fiction, prostitution, lesbian culture, the automobile, the kitchen, Barbie dolls, and more; a final section gathers biographies of four hundred notable women. And threaded through this engrossing book are the submerged but significant experiences of every womanıfrom births to betrayals, from ecstasy to laundry day.

"[Rowbotham's] research has been comprehensive, as the 66 pages of bibliography show, for she has searched academic and popular sources on both sides of the Atlantic, to satisfy her own curiosity about the similarities and differences between Britain and the United States. She writes in admirably clear, unpretentious language, and includes a good deal of vivid and illuminating material."

Jessica Mann, Literary Review, May 1997

"A stylish book, sufficiently accessible to be widely read and sufficiently sober to become a set text on women's studies courses...."

Melissa Benn, London Review of Books, 02/05/1998

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