A comprehensive look at the decade that transformed the lives of women
Throughout the book, Virginia Nicholson subtly shows the seeds being sown from which would grow the Women’s Liberation Movement that exploded at the end of the decade
History: How Was It For You? Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s, By Virginia Nicholson, Viking, €25
In 1968, two young women called Lucy and Roberta were in their second year at the London School of Economics. The year has gone down in history as the year that students from Paris to New York found their radical voice, part of a generation of rebels that were rocking the status quo.
Roberta ...