Forgotten Wives: How Women Get Written Out of History

by Ann Oakley

Throughout history, records of women's lives and work have been lost through the pervasive assumption of male dominance. Wives, especially, disappear as supporters of their husbands' work, as unpaid and often unacknowledged secretaries and research assistants, and as managers of men's domestic domains; even intellectual collaboration tends to be portrayed as normative wifely behaviour rather than as joint work. Forgotten Wives examines the ways in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447355849
• ISBN13: 9781447355847
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"