Sheila Rowbotham

Sheila Rowbotham is a socialist, feminist theorist and writer with a long history of activism. Towards the end of the 1960s she became involved in the growing Women's Liberation Movement and, in 1969, published her influential pamphlet 'Women's Liberation and the New Politics'. She was heavily involved in the conference and book Beyond the Fragments, which attempted to draw together democratic socialist and socialist feminist currents in the UK. Since then, Rowbotham has produced numerous books and articles. In 2004, Rowbotham was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is currently Professor of Gender and Labour History, Sociology at the University of Manchester. Her books include her memoir Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties.

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