Sheila Rowbotham
Sheila Rowbotham (* 1943 in Leeds , Great Britain ) is a British sociologist and socialist feminist .
She studied at St Hilda's College of Oxford University and at the University of London . Then she worked as a teacher at a comprehensive school. After several visiting professorships and other academic jobs, she first became a Research Fellow at Manchester University in 1993 , and later became Professor of Sociology, Gender Studies and Workers' History there, a position she held until her retirement in 2008.
As a socialist feminist and historian of the women's movement, Rowbotham criticizes, among other things, sexism within the male-dominated labor movement . She was a contributor to The Black Dwarf magazine .
Fonts
- Women Resistance and Revolution (1973)
- Woman's Consciousness, Man's World . Pelican, London 1973
- Hidden from History . Pluto, London 1973
- (with Lynne Segal and Hilary Wainwright): Beyond the Fragments. Feminism and the Making of Socialism , 1980
- Women in Movement. Feminism and Social Action Routledge, New York and London 1993.
- A Century of Women. The History of Women in Britain and the US . Penguin London 1999.
- Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love (Verso, 2008)
Awards
- 2009: Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Memoir / Biography category for Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
Individual evidence
- ^ Antonio Gonzalez Cerna: 21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards. In: Lambda Literary. February 18, 2010, accessed March 27, 2019 .
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| SURNAME | Rowbotham, Sheila |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British sociologist and socialist feminist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leeds , UK |