'Much of the evidence is startlingly unexpected, the overall conclusions appallingly bleak, and yet Subject Women is an exciting, bracing, and at times very inspiring book.' Marina Warner, Sunday Times 'Subject Women stands as an invaluable resource, well-researched and wide-ranging, the most comprehensive review to date of women's roles.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'As a book written ...to inform, to provide references for more detailed study and to identify those issues which are as yet unresolved and the subject of current debate, it is extremely successful.' Marxism Today