Article: Swinging dreams Sixties themes; Sheila Rowbotham was a radical feminist who wouldn't give up mascara for anyone. Susan Flockhart talks to a woman who longs for liberation

THE trouble with being young in the Swinging Sixties was that you had to decide which way to swing. For women, there were two options. You could be a radical swinger, wielding placards, staging sit-ins and marching through the streets yelling, Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh! Or you could be a sexy swinger, wearing short skirts from Chelsea Girl and painting your face with Biba make-up.

Sheila Rowbotham wanted to do both. As a 19-year-old Oxford undergraduate, she declared herself a socialist, and took to student activism with gusto. But she also longed for glamour and sophistication, a fact which so incensed her boyfriend - a disciple of Jean Paul Sartre - that he threw her mascara out the window. ...

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