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Earlier campaigns on housework were directed at getting men to "do their share", but at communal services that would the load of working-class women, down by child rearing and often backdomestic work. Subject to some minor revisions, this would surely still be a popular policy today. Rowbotham is unperturbed by human frailties: there are several sympathetic references to the formidable Russian -American anarchist Emma Goldman, who was emotionally and erotically enslaved by an unreliable lover.
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What a Girl's Got to Do
What a girl's got to do Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the 20th Century Sheila Rowbotham Verso, 3 izpp, £17.99
Sheila Rowbotham's work has always been concerned with unearthing connections between and present, the personal and the political...See the full content of this document
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