Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
& Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Gender & Sexuality
Invite you to discuss
AFTER, BEYOND THE FRAGMENTS?
with
Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal & Hilary Wainwright
&
Max Farrar, Pragna Patel, Rosie Rogers & Sasha Roseneil
chaired by Melissa Benn
7.30pm
Friday 3 May 2013
Clore Management Centre
Birkbeck, University of London
A generation ago Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal and Hilary Wainwright wrote Beyond the Fragments. Inspired by the activism of the 1970s, and facing the imminent triumph of the right under Margaret Thatcher, they sought to apply their experiences as feminists to the project of creating stronger bonds of solidarity in a new kind of left movement. Since then the obstacles facing those struggling for radical social transformation have grown formidably: deepening recession, environmental pollution, falling real wages and savage welfare cuts. New forms of resistance have appeared, but how are they to coalesce?In three new essays in a new edition of BEYOND THE FRAGMENTS Rowbotham, Segal and Wainwright return to the fraught question of how to consolidate diverse upsurges of rebellion into effective, open, democratic Left coalitions.
To mark the publication of this new edition, the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research is hosting a discussion of the issues raised by the original book. Come along and join us for a lively discussion and a celebration of the new edition of Beyond the Fragments.
This event is free - register here
Find out more about the new edition of the book by clicking here