Labnet: Book launch of biography of Edward Carpenter - Manchester, UK, 29/10

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From: Bernadette & Michael mossley at phonecoop.coop  



Please note the following event to launch Sheila Rowbotham's new book
entitled Edward Carpenter; a Life of Liberty and Love (published by
Verso).

 

29th  October 6pm at  Blackwell Bookshop, The Precinct Centre, Oxford
Road, Manchester, England. All welcome 

 

Major new biography of the pioneering advocate of free love, gay rights
and women's suffrage

Challenging both capitalism and the values of Western civilization, the
gay socialist writer Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the
cultural and political landscape of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. A mystic advocate of, among other causes, free
love, recycling, nudism, women's suffrage and prison reform, Carpenter's
work anticipated the sexual revolution of the 1960s and placed him at
the centre of the literary culture of his day.

Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this major new
biography situates Carpenter's life and thought in relation to the
social, aesthetic and intellectual movements of his day, and explores
his friendships with figures such as Walt Whitman, Robert Graves, Oscar
Wilde, E.M. Forster, Isadora Duncan and Emma Goldman. Edward Carpenter
paints a compelling portrait of a man described by contemporaries as a
"weather-vane" for his times. 

Sheila Rowbotham is Professor of Gender and Labour History at the
University of Manchester, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her
many books include A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain
and the United States in the Twentieth Century and Promise of a Dream:
Remembering the Sixties
<http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/r-titles/rowbotham_promise.shtml
> . She has written for, among other newspapers, the Guardian, The
Times, the Independent, New Statesman, and the New York Times

 

Interview in The Guardian 22 October 2008.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/22/women-highereducation
-sheila-rowbotham-feminism

 

 

 


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