Forgotten Wives: How Women Get Written Out of History

by Ann Oakley

Throughout history, records of high-achieving women have been lost through the pervasive assumption of male dominance. Independently performing women 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447355830
• ISBN13: 9781447355830
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"