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1. Women in Movement (Routledge Revivals)

   Feminism and Social Action

   By Sheila Rowbotham

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1992, this book is an historical introduction to a wide range of women’s movements from the late eighteenth-century to the date of its publication. It describes economic, social and political ideas which have inspired women to organize, not only in Europe and North America, but...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Women Encounter Technology

   Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World

   Edited by Swasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham

   Series: UNU/INTECH Studies in New Technology and Development

   This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide. The book provides a critique of postmodernism and...

   Published April 23rd 1997 by Routledge
3. Dignity and Daily Bread

   New Forms of Economic Organization Among Poor Women in the Third World and the First

   Edited by Swasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham

   Compares the lives of women in the first and third worlds, examining how women have organized forms of production themselves in the struggle towards breaking down some of the ideological barriers that colonialism and racism have built among them....

   Published December 8th 1993 by Routledge