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Daring To Hope: Sheila Rowbotham and Sally Alexander in Conversation

Sheila Rowbotham introduces her new memoir on her life in the 1970s discusses it and this decade of hopeful liberation with Sally Alexander. In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women’s liberation movement, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. She reveals the tremendous efforts that were made to transform attitudes and feelings, as well as daily life. The book is available to buy here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3863.... For more information about the collections connected to the Women’s Liberation at The Women’s Library please visit: https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/collect... Sheila Rowbotham’s collection is available to search online: https://archives.lse.ac.uk/CalmView/R... Sally Alexander’s collection is available to search online: https://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.asp... Sheila Rowbotham, who helped start the women’s liberation movement in Britain, is known internationally as an historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of the ground-breaking books Women, Resistance and Revolution; Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World; and Hidden from History. Her other works include Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century; the biography Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Biography, and Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States. Sally Alexander is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Goldsmiths University of London. Her books include Becoming a Woman: and other essays in 19th and 20th century feminist history (London: Virago, 1994), and most recently History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past, edited with Barbara Taylor (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She was founding editor of the History Workshop Journal. An organiser of the first national UK Women’s Liberation Movement conference held at Ruskin College, Oxford in 1970, she was a member of several groups in the London Women’s Liberation Workshop and participated in the 1970 Miss World Demonstration and the Night Cleaners Campaign. Music Credit: 'Lasting Memories' by Scott Holmes Music https://scottholmesmusic.com/