Lynne Segal was born on 29 March 1944 and is an Australian-born, British-based socialist feminist academic and activist, author of many books and articles, and participant in many campaigns, from local community to international.
11 Facts About Lynne Segal
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Lynne Segal has taught in higher education in London, England, since 1970, at Middlesex Polytechnic from 1973.
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Lynne Segal was born in a Jewish family to Iza and Reuben Lynne Segal, who were both physicians.
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Lynne Segal's brother Graeme is a mathematician and her sister Barbara is a baroque dancer.
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Lynne Segal studied psychology at Sydney University, obtaining her PhD in 1969, while becoming immersed in the anti-authoritarian milieu of the Sydney Libertarians, and has always remained within the libertarian wing of Left politics.
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Lynne Segal became pregnant in 1969 and married her husband, the artist James Clifford, who later came out as gay.
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Lynne Segal emigrated to London in 1970 and for the next decade her main energies went into grass roots politics in Islington, North London, helping to set up and run a women's centre, an alternative newspaper, the Islington Gutter Press, and supporting anti-racist politics.
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In 2007, Lynne Segal published Making Trouble: Life and Politics, a Political Memoir, covering her generation of post-war activists, pondering what has become of their politics in the grimmer, more divided world of the 21st century.
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Lynne Segal has a son, Zim Segal, working in web technology.
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Lynne Segal has lived in Islington, North London, since she arrived from Sydney.
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Lynne Segal is a Labour Party member of the Islington North Constituency Labour Party, in the Highbury East branch.