Title: Promise of a dream
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.
Subjects: Biography, Feminists, Nineteen sixties, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Women historians, Women's rights, College students, Feminism, Radicalism, United states, social conditions, 1960-, Women, united states, biography
Places: Great Britain
People: Sheila Rowbotham (1943-)
Time periods: 1945-, 1964-1979