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Promise of a Dream
Sheila Rowbotham
其他書名
Remembering the Sixties
出版Verso, 2001
主題Biography & Autobiography / EducatorsBiography & Autobiography / WomenPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / RadicalismSocial Science / Feminism & Feminist TheorySocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Women's Studies
ISBN185984622X9781859846223
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eLXUsj3DDpoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Sheila Rowbotham is best known as an historian. Her books such as A Century of Women, Threads Through Time and Hidden From History have been widely celebrated. Now, in Promise of a Dream, she turns her hand to memoir. The result is a sparkling portrait of that most exuberant of times, the 1960s.

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.

While faithful to the exhilaration and enthusiasm of the sixties, Rowbotham is also wryly amusing about her younger self. When Jean-Luc Godard wanted to film her in the nude, she dithered between principle and vanity. Wearing the shortest of mini skirts she argued passionately for women's liberation.Promise of a Dream is a moving, witty and poignant recollection of a time when young women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the world. Sheila Rowbotham was, and remains, one of their most effective and endearing voices.