The Life and Love of Edward Carpenter
For LGBT History Month, historian Sheila Rowbotham remembers Edward Carpenter – poet, philosopher, utopian socialist, and a pioneer of gay rights amid the repression of Victorian England.
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Sheila Rowbotham
Sheila Rowbotham is a socialist feminist historian who was instrumental in the Women's Liberation Movement in Britain. Her books include Women, Resistance and Revolution and Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism.
Sheila Rowbotham: In Hope and Struggle
Sheila Rowbotham discusses life in the struggle for women’s liberation, her path to socialist feminism – and why she believes the debates of the 1970s continue to hold such resonance today.
The Paris Commune at 150
150 years ago today, in the jaws of defeat in war, a revolutionary militia took over the city of Paris and began an experiment in democratic government – the Commune they built continues to inspire radicals today.