Women: The Longest Revolution

This impressive collection includes essays, many hitherto unpublished, on feminism, literature and psychoanalysis, all areas to which Juliet Mitchell has made seminal contributions, while her new introductions indicate the connections between them. Through considerable diversity, a single strand unites these fascinating pieces - a changing and many-sided preoccupation with the pyschological dimension to social and aesthetic questions.

Her writings from the 60s and 70s were some of the earliest to explore the political, social and economic position of women and include the famous title essay, published just before the rise of the current women's movement. Juliet Mitchell's interest in literature focuses on childhood and growth as portrayed in the nineteenth-century novel.

Finally, this stimulating book brings together important essays on psychoanalysis, female sexuality and the psychology of femininity, extensions of her remarkable work Pyschoanalysis and Feminism. The whole reflects the thought and development of one of the most important feminist thinkers of our time.