Women of ideas : and what men have done to them from Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich

by Dale Spender

Paper Book, 1983

Status

Available

Publication

London : Ark Paperbacks, 1983.

Description

This is a study of women's thoughts and ideas spanning three centuries. The author contends that men have removed women from literary and historical records and deprived women of the knowledge of their intellectual heritage. This book is an attempt to redress the balance.

User reviews

LibraryThing member holy.cow
Jolly interesting! Rather a tome - took me three years to get round to reading it because it is a paper brick, nay breize block. Well worth the effort however, because it tells you about lots of interesting writers, characters, minds and works that you haven't heard of, and they are just as
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interesting as the ones you have heard of.
Great, increases the number of interesting things to read et c., and illustrates the political point that it has happened.
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Language

Original publication date

1982

Physical description

x, 800 p.; 20 cm

ISBN

074480003X / 9780744800036

Local notes

feminisms

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