Sheila Rowbotham

Sheila Rowbotham was born in 1943 in Yorkshire and studied history at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Apart from working on a number of socialist and feminist journals, she has written several books, including Women, Resistance and Revolution, Hidden from History, and A New World for Women. She is currently Visiting Professor in the Women's Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam, and is working in the Economic Policy Unit of the Greater London Council. ‘Lance’ (Granta 9) is from Fathers: Reflections by Daughters (1983) which was published by Virago Press.