Thanks for Typing
Subtitle: Remembering Forgotten Women in History
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781350150058
Subjects: Sociology
Description: "As the #ThanksforTyping movement has shown, anonymous women working to support the work of their male relations and colleagues has been, and often still is, a universal phenomenon. These essays show just how long intelligent and determined women have been side-lined, ignored or forgotten throughout history. From the mother of the poet Philip Larkin to the wife of Ghana's first president, this book uncovers the uncredited contributions of wives, daughters, mothers, companions and female assistants who laboured in the shadows of famous men"--