Uncontrollable Women

Using inspirational stories of female political pioneers from the 1800's, Nan Sloane explores the period in which women began to enter the public space to seek change. Illuminating a time when the first demands were made for female suffrage, when women began to organise on their own account, and when working-class women and men began to assert their collective presence and voice, this is a history of radical, reformist and revolutionary women. Sloane shows how they played a part in developing political ideas and freedoms as we know them today, and the vital battles they fought which are still ongoing.