Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers And Radicals In Britain And The United States

Author: Sheila Rowbotham

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  • : October 2016
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Description

In a feat of extraordinary archival research Sheila Rowbotham uncovers six little-known women and men whose lives were both dramatic and startlingly radical. Rowbotham tells a story that moves from Bristol, Belfast and Edinburgh to Massachusetts and the wildernesses of California, showing how rebellious ideas were formed and travelled across the Atlantic. Rebel Crossings offers fascinating perspectives on the historical interaction of feminism, socialism, anarchism and on the incipient consciousness of a new sense of self, so vital for women seeking emancipation. Their influences ranged from Unitarianism, High Church Anglicanism, and esoteric spirituality through to Walt Whitman, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Eleanor Marx, Peter Kropotkin, Benjamin Tucker, and Max Stirner. In differing ways they sought to combine the creation of a co-operative society with personal freedom, enhanced perception and loving friendships, experimenting with free love, rational dress, health diets and deep breathing. A work of significant originality in terms of historical scholarship, this book also speaks to the dilemmas of our own times.

Reviews

"Rowbotham is one of Britain's most important, if unshowy, feminist thinkers" - Guardian "I can't wait to read this... Juicy historical gossip for nerds." - Lucy Kogler, LitHub

Author description

Sheila Rowbotham is known internationally as an historian of feminism and women's movements. She has also written extensively on the history of socialism and anarchism. She is an Honorary Fellow at Manchester University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and lives in Bristol.