Dimensions
164 x 241 x 27mm
At the start of the sixties Sheila Rowbotham was a clever sixteen-year-old lower-middle-class girl at a methodist boarding school in Yorkshire, determined to get into Oxford. At the end of the decade she was living in a flat in Hackney, East London and contemplating the dissipation of the euphoria of '68 as she attended her first women's liberation meetings and planned feminism's first UK conference.
Sheila's life in the 1960's contains all the elements that epitomise the decade: sex, drugs, and rock and roll - and lots of politics.Promise of a Dream captures the essence of a decade, its possibilities, its promises. Only now are we able to understand the crucial significance of the 1960's in providing the frame work for the thinking that has carried us through to this new century.
