Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties - Rilegato

Rowbotham, Sheila

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ISBN 10: 185984622X ISBN 13: 9781859846223

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2001

Riassunto

Sheila Rowbotham is best known as an historian. Her books such as A Century of Women, Threads Through Time and Hidden From History have been widely celebrated. Now, in Promise of a Dream, she turns her hand to memoir. The result is a sparkling portrait of that most exuberant of times, the 1960s.

At the beginning of the decade Rowbotham was a rebellious sixteen-year-old at a Methodist boarding school in the north-east of England, reading Sartre and dreaming of Paris. By the end of the sixties she was a seasoned political activist, planning Britain's first-ever women's liberation conference, and beginning to find her voice as a writer.

Her story of the intervening years moves from coffee bars in Leeds to the Sorbonne and Oxford University, where she arrives wearing frayed Levis and clutching a volume of Rimbaud. A participant in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, she was also a member of the editorial board of the notorious revolutionary newspaper Black Dwarf.

While faithful to the exhilaration and enthusiasm of the sixties, Rowbotham is also wryly amusing about her younger self. When Jean-Luc Godard wanted to film her in the nude, she dithered between principle and vanity. Wearing the shortest of mini skirts she argued passionately for women's liberation.

Promise of a Dream is a moving, witty and poignant recollection of a time when young women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the world. Sheila Rowbotham was, and remains, one of their most effective and endearing voices.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Shelia Rowbotham teaches at Manchester University, England.

Sheila Rowbotham is Honorary Research Fellow in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences within the Faculty of Humanities at Manchester University and Visiting Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her many books include the James Tait Black–shortlisted Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century, Promise Of A Dream: Remembering the Sixties, and Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century. She has written for, among other newspapers, the Guardian, The Times, The Independent, New Statesman, and The New York Times. She lives in Manchester.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 185984622X
• ISBN 13: 9781859846223
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 119
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