Sheila Rowbotham
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British historian and feminist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sheila Rowbotham is an English socialist feminist theorist and historian. Early life Rowbotham was born on 27 February 1943 in Leeds , the daughter of a salesman for an engineering company and an office clerk. From an early age, she was deeply interested in history. She has written that traditional political history "left her cold", but she credited Olga Wilkinson, one of her teachers, with encouraging her interest in social history by showing that history "belonged to the present, not to the history textbooks".
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