Figes, Eva (1932–)
Figes, Eva (1932–)
German-born British feminist writer. Born in Berlin, Germany, April 15, 1932; dau of Emil Eduard Unger and Irma Cohen Unger; from age 7, educated in London; graduate of University College; m. John George Figes, 1954.
Worked as an editor and translator before becoming a full-time writer (1967); best known for her book Patriarchal Attitudes: Women in Society (1970), which examines the ideology of women's subordination in religious thought, liberal philosophy, capitalist economics, psychoanalysis, and popular custom; examined the lives of British women writers in her Sex and Subterfuge: Women Novelists to 1850 (1981).
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