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Sheila Rowbotham, who helped start the women’s liberation movement in Britain, is known internationally as a historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of the groundbreaking books Women, Resistance and Revolution; Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World; and Hidden from History. Her later works include Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties and Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) first achieved fame for her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she extended the radical idea of the “rights of man” to women and laid the groundwork for modern feminism.
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