Was the subordination of women the price civilisation paid for empire? McCabe answers by tracing their legal and political standing through prehistoric societies, ancient Egypt and Assyria, Greece and Rome, the “dark age” of the medieval Church, the Renaissance and Revolution, and the nineteenth-century campaigns, with an eye on what each age teaches the suffrage movement.
A brisk survey from a prolific freethinker, written at the height of the British votes-for-women struggle. Download the free EPUB.