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Protests centring on the \u003cb\u003eMind\u003c\/b\u003e begin with educational inequalities disproportionately affecting black children and petitions for degree qualifications for women, later recognising the victories of working women’s unions and examining women’s presence in politics. Finally, we see how the \u003cb\u003eVoice \u003c\/b\u003eof women is projected in their creative responses to gender disparity, through protest, publication and invention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContaining sixteen voices, each with a different focus, \u003ci\u003eUnfinished Business\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how the impressive and moving history of women’s campaigning works as an engine to power future change, connecting it to the contemporary moment of debate. This bold and celebratory history champions the incredible work of activist organisations today and showcases influential women, speaking for themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294535233909,"sku":"9780712353953","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780712353953_4d17f6df-da94-4ef4-b472-7daf189e53b6.jpg?v=1786014794"},{"product_id":"9780850366396","title":"Beyond the Fragments","description":"\u003cp\u003eA generation ago, they wrote \u003cem\u003eBeyond the Fragments\u003c\/em\u003e. Inspired by the activism of the 1970s and facing the imminent triumph of the Right under Margaret Thatcher, they sought to apply our experiences as feminists to creating stronger bonds of solidarity in a new kind of Left movement. Since then the obstacles facing them have grown formidably deepening recession, environmental pollution, falling real wages, and savage welfare cuts. New forms of resistance have appeared, but how are they to coalesce? In three new essays to this third edition of \u003cem\u003eBeyond the Fragments\u003c\/em\u003e, Shelia Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright return to the fraught question of how to consolidate diverse upsurges of rebellion into effective, open, democratic Left coalitions.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295178830197,"sku":"9780850366396","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780850366396_47887a9b-1849-485b-b050-4208a1b6e761.jpg?v=1786015675"},{"product_id":"9781788734806","title":"Promise of a Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePromise of a Dream\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving, witty and poignant recollection of a time when young women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheila Rowbotham, best known for \u003ci\u003eA Century of Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThreads Through Time\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHidden From History\u003c\/i\u003e, turns her hand here to memoir. The result is a wryly amusing account of her younger self, and a sparkling portrait of the exhilaration and enthusiasm of the sixties.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305474634101,"sku":"9781788734806","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781788734806_3b22ddfd-3c7d-4051-831e-5081daad35a2.jpg?v=1786026998"},{"product_id":"9780850367911","title":"Reasons to Rebel","description":"Following on from Daring to Hope, 9781839763892; Promise of a Dream 9781788734806 , \"Rowbotham has wisdom - and wit.\"  https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/nov\/29\/daring-to-hope-by-sheila-rowbotham-review-on-the-frontline-of-70s-feminism    The 1980s were a shock. Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government battered left movements, painfully disrupted working-class peoples' livelihoods and pressed down on many groups who faced  discrimination.  There was no shortage of reasons to rebel. Along with thousands upon thousands of others I opposed not just the repressive laws, but the fundamental tenets of the new right. Hanging on to visions of creative utopias, we strove for new ways of organizing and relating to others and we sought to connect a liberatory sexual politics with rebellions against many kinds of inequality. We argued wrote, campaigned, demonstrated, picketed.   We established alternative cooperative projects, secured reforms through local government and made direct international links. Resourceful resistance slowed down the onslaught but we were contending not simply with the doctrinal resolve of a right-wing government. We faced something larger, something that could not be voted out - a more ruthless global capitalism, geared to profits which was prepared to dump hard-won social provision and neglect to conserve even basic infrastructure.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311976460661,"sku":"9780850367911","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780850367911_93bca272-51dc-45c1-af6d-36348a0ec707.jpg?v=1786015689"},{"product_id":"9781836742531","title":"Women, Resistance and Revolution","description":"This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. 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