The Captive Wife

Written in simple prose and fair-minded in its approach, The Captive Wife became an inspirational book for many mothers, feminists and activists seeking equality for women and remains a vital book today. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Ann Oakley.

Hannah Gavron was a brilliant, promising British sociologist who died at the age of twenty-nine. Her only book, The Captive Wife, was published the year after her death in 1965. Her son Jeremy Gavron’s A Woman on the Edge of Time is an acclaimed account of his mother’s life and suicide and was the subject of a BBC radio drama.