Forgotten Wives – How Women Get Written Out of His tory Oakley Hardback
Forgotten WivesHow Women Get Written Out of History\nAuthor(s): Ann Oakley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781447355830, 978-1447355830\nSynopsis\nThroughout 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 mens domestic domains; even intellectual collaboration tends to be portrayed as normative wifely behaviour rather than as joint work.\n\nForgotten Wives examines the ways in which the institution and status of marriage has contributed to the active disremembering of womens achievements. Drawing on archives, biographies, autobiographies and historical accounts, best-selling author and academic Ann Oakley interrogates conventions of history and biography-writing using the case studies of four wom.
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