Thu Jan 8 - Thu Jan 22 Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love Website

Description Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love Sheila Rowbotham, Biographer of Gay Freedom Pioneer, to Speak. Acclaimed British historian Sheila Rowbotham will read from and sign copies of her major new biography, Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, on Thursday, January 8, 2009 from 6:00 to 7:30 PM at the San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street in the Latino/Hispanic Room. The event is co-sponsored by the SF Public Library Hormel Center, the Edward Carpenter Forum and the SF GLBT Historical Society. In conjunction with Professor Rowbotham's appearance, the Library will mount the exhibit, My Days and Dreams: The Worlds of Edward Carpenter, Early Gay Freedom Pioneer, during the month of January on the 3rd floor of the Main Library. One of the earliest advocates of freedom for the people he termed “Homogenic”, Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) set the stage over one hundred years ago for what would become today’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Freedom Movement. At a time when same sex loving men were imprisoned for their desire, he lived openly for nearly 40 years with his dear “boy”, George Merrill. Carpenter’s writings and life inspired several generations of homosexual people, including the novelist EM Foster, who wrote his novel Maurice after visiting him. Carpenter’s influence on Mattachine Society and Radical Fairies founder Harry Hay directly contributed to the birth of the modern LGBT movement. Even the poet Allen Ginsberg traces his gay poetic lineage back to Walt Whitman through Carpenter. Yet Edward Carpenter in his own time was widely know as many things: a poet, socialist, critic of “Civilization”, mystic, vegetarian, rational dress advocate, anarchist, simple life advocate, women’s freedom supporter, pagan; in short, a harbinger of the many new worlds of the mind and body that were overthrowing the certainties of the Victorian era and giving birth to the Modern period. 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, Woman, Resistance and Revolution, 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. She has written for, among other newspapers, the Guardian, The Times, the Independent, New Statesman, and the New York Times. Professor Rowbotham will also be appearing at the following Bay Area Locations: Sunday, January 11, 2009 , 2-4 pm Bound Together Bookstore 1369 Haight Street San Francisco , CA 94117 415.431-8355 Wednesday, January 14, 2009 , 7:30 PM Moe’s Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue Berkeley CA 94704 Thursday, January 22, 2009 , 7:00 PM Alexander Berkman Social Club 552 Valencia Street San Francisco , CA 94110

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