Promise of a dream
Subtitle: remembering the sixties
By: Sheila Rowbotham.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Rowbotham, Sheila; Feminists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Women's rights -- Great Britain; Women historians -- Great Britain -- Biography; College students -- Great Britain -- Biography; Feminism -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1945-; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1964-1979
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Remembering the sixties
Description: "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." "Promise of a Dream is a recollection of a time when young women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: London : A. Lane, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-262).