num_pages: 336
description: A personal history of life love and womens liberationIn this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the womens 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.After addressing the first British Womens Liberation Conference at Ruskin College Oxford in 1970 she went on to encourage night cleaners to unionise to campaign for nurseries and abortion rights. She played an influential role in discussions of socialist feminist ideas and her books and journalism attracted an international readership.Written with generosity and humour Daring to Hope recreates grassroots networks communal houses and squats bringing alive a shared impetus to organise collectively and to love without jealousy or domination. It conveys the shifts occurring in politics and society through kernels of personal experience. The result is a book about liberation in the widest sense.
language: English
title: Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s
publisher: Verso