Author(s): Lynne Segal

Biography & Memoir

Encountering anarchists in her native Australia at seventeen led Lynne Segal to a life spent in political activism, beginning with her first arrest for protesting at eighteen. Moving to London and taking up residence in a flat just vacated by Dorls Lessing, Segal met the women from north London's Grosvenor Avenue, who had been arrested for sabotaging the Miss World Contest in 1970. She spent the rest of the 70s combining motherhood with communal living, politicking and free love, as well as helping to publish the "Islington Gutter Press", eventually moving into academia as the fierce radicalism of previous years faded in the 1980s. Looking back at a life well lived, Lynne Segal considers what formed her generation and what mark they have left on the world. From the dutiful and compliant 1950s when she grew up to the freedom and empowerment of the 60s and 70s, "Making Trouble" examines where those dreamers have ended up.