Robin the feminist

Robin lived  and worked among women intensely, creatively and lovingly, thinking aloud about gender with family, colleagues, friends and students, grown-ups and children.  He listened to and celebrated all that they had to say - round tables, on long walks, over the washing-up.  He helped make practical change happen in women’s lives across the world.   In the  1970s Robin embraced and supported emerging new feminist theories of gender inequality and the hidden economic value of women’s unpaid work.   A public intellectual committed to equality and fair trade, he was painfully aware of the difficulty, sometimes the impossibility of staying grounded, and of his debts to those around him: especially women’s work in what Frances named as the ‘reproduction of daily life’.