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DESCRIPTION:Sheila Rowbotham will discuss her new book Rebel Crossings which relates 
 the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the 
 nineteenth to the twentieth century, from Britain to America, and from Old 
 World conventions toward New World utopias. Radicalised by the rise of 
 socialism, Helena Born, Miriam Daniell, Gertrude Dix, Robert Nicol and 
 William Bailie cross the Atlantic dreaming of liberty and equality. The 
 hope for a new age is captured in the name Miriam and Robert give their 
 love child, born shortly after their arrival: Sunrise. A young Bostonian, 
 Helen Tufts learns of Miriam’s defiant spirit through her close 
 friendship with Helena; the love she feels for Helena and later for William 
 fundamentally alters her life.\n\n\nAll six are part of a wider historical 
 search for self-fulfillment and an alternative to a cruelly competitive 
 capitalism. In articles, poems and allegories Helena, Helen and Miriam 
 resist the cultural constraints women face, while female characters in 
 Gertrude’s novels struggle to combine personal happiness with radical 
 social commitment. William campaigns against class inequality as a 
 socialist and an anarchist while longing to read and study. Robert, the 
 former union militant, becomes preoccupied with personal growth and 
 mystical enlightenment in the wilds of California.\n\nRebel Crossings 
 offers fascinating perspectives on the historical interaction of feminism, 
 socialism, and anarchism and on the incipient consciousness of a new sense 
 of self, so vital for women seeking emancipation. These six lives bring 
 fresh slants on political and cultural movements and upon influential 
 individuals like Walt Whitman, Eleanor Marx, William Morris, Edward 
 Carpenter, Patrick Geddes and Benjamin Tucker. It is a work of significant 
 originality by one of our leading feminist historians and speaks to the 
 dilemmas of our own time.\n\nSheila Rowbotham, who helped start the 
 women’s liberation movement in Britain, is known internationally as an 
 historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of 
 the ground-breaking books Women, Resistance and Revolution; Woman’s 
 Consciousness, Man’s World; and Hidden from History. Her later works 
 include Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties; Dreamers of a New Day: 
 Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century; and the biography Edward 
 Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, shortlisted for the James Tait Black 
 Prize and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Biography. Her poetry 
 and two plays have been published and she has written for newspapers and 
 journals in Britain, the US, Italy, Brazil, Turkey, Sweden and Sri Lanka. 
 An Honorary Fellow of Manchester University and a Fellow of the Royal 
 Society of Arts, she lives in Bristol.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/06/07/18799980.php
SUMMARY:How Five Europeans Changed Feminism, Anarchy and Free Love in America - Author Reading
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco, CA  94102\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/06/07/18799980.php
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