Six articles explore the social and economic roots of women's oppression from prehistoric society to modern capitalism and point the road forward to emancipation.
“A sharp-eyed and stringently worded wake-up call to the problems of the past and how they have shaped present gender discriminations.”“Still timely 40 years after its original publication, Reed's book examines the economic and social roots of women's oppression from earliest times to the contemporary capitalist world.”