Promise of a Dream: Sheila Rowbotham and Lynne Segal

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Sheila Rowbotham’s many books, in history, politics, feminist theory and biography, have established her firmly at the forefront of both the women’s movement and of libertarian socialism. Perhaps the most personal of them though is Promise of a Dream, first published by Penguin in 2000 and now available again in a new edition from Verso. Frank, beautifully written, funny and moving, it is a coming of age story that takes us from Leeds to Oxford via the Sorbonne, and a stirring account of awakening political consciousness during the 1960s. 
Professor Rowbotham will be reading from her work, and will be in conversation with Lynne Segal, Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College and author, most recently, of <A HREF="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/on-our-shelves/book/9781786631558/radical-happiness-moments-of-collective-joy" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Radical Happiness</A> and <A HREF="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/on-our-shelves/book/9781786631510/making-trouble-life-and-politics" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Making Trouble</A>.

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