{"id":1292,"date":"2021-12-10T07:46:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T07:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2022-02-24T08:45:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T08:45:44","slug":"daring-to-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Daring to Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>A personal history of the politics of the 1970s<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><strong>A meeting of the Socialist History Society with historian Sheila Rowbotham<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UPBKB6jcoPo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The SHS is pleased to announce that our first talk of 2022 was with historian Sheila Rowbotham who discussed her involvement in the women\u2019s liberation movement, left-wing politics and the \u201calternative\u201d culture of the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Her talk covered episodes examined in her recently published memoir, <em>Daring to Hope<\/em>, such as the first Women\u2019s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College, in 1970, which she helped to initiate, her campaigning to help unionise night cleaners, for childcare and abortion rights.<\/p>\n<p>During this decade, Sheila Rowbotham was influential in the development of socialist feminist ideas producing a series of landmark socialist-feminist books, such as <em>Women, Resistance and Revolution, Woman&#8217;s Consciousness, Man&#8217;s World <\/em>and <em> Hidden from History: 300 years of Women&#8217;s Oppression and the Fight Against It. <\/em> Sheila also co-authored <em>Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism, <\/em>with Lynne Segal and Hilary Wainwright.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Daring to Hope<\/em> Rowbotham demonstrates her profound awareness that the \u201cpersonal is political\u201d as she reflects on grassroots activism, communal living, collective organisation and the interconnections between personal liberation and wider political struggles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A personal history of the politics of the 1970s A meeting of the Socialist History Society with historian Sheila Rowbotham The SHS is pleased to announce that our first talk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-shs-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}