Sheila Rowbotham (born in 1943 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is an British socialist feminist theorist and writer. Leeds is a city in the county of West Yorkshire, in the north of England. ... West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England, corresponding roughly to the core of the West Riding of the traditional county of Yorkshire. ... Great Britain - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... A request has been made on Wikipedia for this article to be deleted in accordance with the deletion policy. ...

Rowbotham attended St Hilda’s College at Oxford and then the University of London. She began her working life as a teacher in comprehensive schools and institutes of higher or Adult education. St Hildas College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Oxford, situated in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Senate House, designed by Charles Holden home to the universitys central administration offices and its library The University of London, founded in 1836, is a federation of colleges which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ... A comprehensive school is a secondary school that accepts students of all abilities, as opposed to a grammar school. ... Adult education is the practice of teaching and educating adults. ...

Her political activism began with her involvement in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the British Labour Party’s youth wing, the Young Socialists. Disenchanted with the direction of party politics she immersed herself in a variety of left-wing campaigns, including writing for the radical political newspaper ‘Black Dwarf’. CND logo In British politics, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been at the forefront of the peace movement in the United Kingdom and claims to be Europes largest single-issue peace campaign. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... Radical is derived from the Latin word radix, which means pertaining to the root(s). In various fields of endeavor, it can mean: in sociology: one who advocates thoroughgoing analysis or change at the root in politics: can refer to a supporter of a revolutionary social movement can refer to...

Towards the end of the 1960s she had become involved in the growing Women’s Liberation Movement (also known as Second-wave feminism) and, in 1969, published her influential pamphlet ‘Women’s Liberation and the New Politics' which argued that Socialist theory needed to consider the oppression of women in cultural as well as economic terms. Second-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist thought that originated around the 1960s and was mainly concerned with independence and greater political action to improve womens rights. ... The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ...

Since then, Rowbotham has produced numerous books and articles expanding upon her theory, which argues that as women’s oppression is a result of both economic and cultural forces then a dualist perspective (socialist feminism), which examines both the public and private sphere, is required to work towards liberation. A book is a collection of leaves of paper, parchment or other material, bound together along one edge within covers. ... Article may refer to multiple things: in grammar: grammatical article in medicine: a joint between two bones In a journal, magazine, or newspaper, an article is a piece of writing or essay on a topic. ... A request has been made on Wikipedia for this article to be deleted in accordance with the deletion policy. ...

In 2004, Rowbotham was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is currently Professor of Gender and Labour History, Sociology at the University of Manchester, England. The Royal Society of Arts, whose correct name is the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce but which is more commonly known as the RSA, is a British multi-disciplinary institution, based in London, which exists to deliver five Manifesto Challenges: encouraging enterprise, moving towards a zero... University of Manchester Motto: Cognitio Sapientia Hvmanitas Knowledge, wisdom, humanity. ...

Bibliography

• "Women’s Liberation and the New Politics" (1969)
• "Woman, Resistance and Revolution" (1973)
• "Woman's Consciousness, Man's World" (1973)
• "Hidden from History: 300 years of Women's Oppression and the Fight against it" (1973)
• "Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties" (2000)

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References

• Shiela Rowbotham and the 1960s (http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2000/428/428p28.htm) by Phil Shannon, Green Left Weekly, Issue 428, 2000.
• Administrative/Biographical History (http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=6777&inst_id=65) - Women's Library Archive entry
• Staff Profile (http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/sociology/staff/rowbotham.htm) - University of Manchester