A major new exploration of the women who revolutionized American and British life in the late 19th and early 20th century, by this renowned feminist historian. 'Ambitious and eloquent...Rowbotham has a marvellous gift for explication and an eye for the illuminating quotation' Elaine Showalter, "Daily Telegraph"

Sheila Rowbotham, who helped start the women’s liberation movement in Britain, is known internationally as an historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of the ground-breaking books Women, Resistance and Revolution; Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World; and Hidden from History. Her later works include Dreamers of a New Day: and Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Biography.