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A sparkling portrait of when women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the world.
A record of an era, winding one girl's coming-of-age story through the drama of political evolution ... She has captured that amazing sense of possibility that grew with each year, the confidence that not only was the promised dream within reach, it was also upon us.
This is a document historians dream of ... it captures the spirit of the 1960s-its fun and crazy idealism-in the life of one spirited young woman.
Unerringly perceptive and funny ... if you want to know what the sixties were like, read this book.
The book works best in conveying the excitement generated by ideas, not just straightforwardly political ones but those about art and the wider definition of liberation ... I wasn't there, but I'm happy that Rowbotham was, and that she remembers it with such clarity.
A rich, painful picture emerges of women searching for both words and spaces to articulate the insights of feminism.
The accounts of the successes, failures, joys and pains of young adulthood have the qualities to be found in the best creative writing. It is a book to be read for the quality of its writing and the honesty and humor of its presentation, as much as for the history it reveals.
An honest account of radical activism, love affairs, studies, travels, teaching, agitation and other stuff of the sixties.
Sheila Rowbotham is Honorary Research Fellow in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Manchester University and Visiting Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. Her many books include the James Tait Black-shortlisted Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love 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.
A record of an era, winding one girl's coming-of-age story through the drama of political evolution ... She has captured that amazing sense of possibility that grew with each year, the confidence that not only was the promised dream within reach, it was also upon us.
This is a document historians dream of ... it captures the spirit of the 1960s-its fun and crazy idealism-in the life of one spirited young woman.
Unerringly perceptive and funny ... if you want to know what the sixties were like, read this book.
The book works best in conveying the excitement generated by ideas, not just straightforwardly political ones but those about art and the wider definition of liberation ... I wasn't there, but I'm happy that Rowbotham was, and that she remembers it with such clarity.
A rich, painful picture emerges of women searching for both words and spaces to articulate the insights of feminism.
The accounts of the successes, failures, joys and pains of young adulthood have the qualities to be found in the best creative writing. It is a book to be read for the quality of its writing and the honesty and humor of its presentation, as much as for the history it reveals.
An honest account of radical activism, love affairs, studies, travels, teaching, agitation and other stuff of the sixties.
Sheila Rowbotham is Honorary Research Fellow in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Manchester University and Visiting Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. Her many books include the James Tait Black-shortlisted Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love 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.