This essay is a revised version of the introduction to Daniel Guerin’s ‘Anarchism: From Theory to Practice’. In a slightly different version, it appeared in the ‘New York Review of Books’, May 21, 1970.
Pocketbook, 28 pages
This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice. Women, Resistance and Revolution is an invaluable historical study, as well as a trove of anecdote and example fit to inspire today’s generation of feminist thinkers and activists.