A Woman’s Place (1975): 
A Pioneering Model of Writing Woman’s History
Shu-fen Tsai
Department of English 
National Dong Hwa University

Abstract 

This paper is to reevaluate a neglected but significant historical work, A Woman’s Place by Ruth Adam(1907-1977). Besides the early debates of writing women’s history raised in the late1970s and 1980s, major women’s issues resurfacing from the 1910s to 1970s, such as women and work, sex and sexual roles, education and welfare, birth control and illegitimacy, women’s professions and fashions, the feminisation of poverty, will be examined to illustrate the methodology and critical vistas initiated by Ruth Adam, whose insights of women’s movement proved influential to later British feminist historians.
Keywords: Bowlbyism, equal pay, femininity, feminisation of poverty, illegitimacy, lone mothers, pop culture, sexual liberation, women’s history, Women’s Lib