Remembering Edward Carpenter, a Victorian Socialist and Gay Rights Advocate
Historian Sheila Rowbotham remembers Edward Carpenter, a poet, philosopher, socialist, and pioneer of gay rights amid the repression of Victorian England.
2 Articles by: 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 on E. P. Thompson, Feminism, and the 1960s
In an interview, longtime socialist-feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham reflects on her decades on the Left, grappling with the reality of being a socialist from the middle class, and E. P. and Dorothy Thompson and the classic book The Making of the English Working Class.