Books in the Women of Ideas Series series

This book provides an accessible introduction to the life, work, and particularly the ideas, of Eleanor Rathbone. A prominent figure in British politics, both as a suffragist and as a Member of Parliament, she is best known today as the leading proponent for the introduction of family allowances.

This accessible introduction to de Beauvoir's life and ideas considers the themes and tensions which inform her work. Highlighting the autobiographical aspects in de Beauvoir's work, Mary Evans presents a new and important analysis of the complex relationship between fact, fiction and autobiography.

This work provides a presentation of Simone Weil's life, work and her contributions to feminist thought. The authors seek to make her complex and sometimes elusive ideas accessible to readers, and offer their own interpretation of her work, delineating how Weil's ideas evolved.

This text explores the ideas of the influential lesbian feminist poet, Adrienne Rich, covering such topics as: feminist struggles; the focus on the "body"; the spiritual continuity of women's history; and "the dynamic between poetry as language and poetry as a kind of action".