Pelicans ISBN 0 14 02.1616 2 - The Rights and Wrongs of Women

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First published 1976

Introduction copyright © Ann Oakley and Juliet Mitchell, 1976 ‘Wisewoman and Medicine Man: Changes in the Management of Childbirth’ copyright © Ann Oakley, 1976 ‘Women's Work in London: 1830-1850’ copyright © Sally Alexander, 1976 ‘Women and Nineteenth-Century Radical Politics: A Lost Dimension’ copyright © Dorothy Thompson, 1976 ‘Landscape with Figures: Home and Community in English Society’ copyright © Leonore Davidoff, Jean L’Esperance and Howard Newby, 1976 ‘Femininity in the Classroom: An Account of Changing Attitudes’ copyright © Pauline Marks, 1976 ‘The Education of Girls Today’ copyright © Tessa Blackstone, 1976 ‘Woman and the Literary Text’ copyright © John Goode, 1976 ‘Women in American Trade Unions: An Historical Analysis’ copyright © Rosalyn Baxandall, 1976 ‘Looking Again at Engels’s Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State’ copyright © Rosalind Delmar, 1976 ‘Women in Revolutionary China’ copyright © Delia Davin, 1976 ‘The Rights and Wrongs of Women: Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau, Simone de Beauvoir’ copyright © Margaret Walters, 1976 ‘Women and Equality’ copyright © Juliet Mitchell, 1976

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