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Difficult Women : A History Of Feminism In 11 Fights
Paperback Edition: 1
Feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights.
Helen Lewis argues that too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. Its time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history of difficult women.
In this book, you'll meet the working-class suffragettes who advocated bombings and arson; the princess who discovered why so many women were having bad sex; the striker in a sari who terrified Margaret Thatcher; and the lesbian politician who outraged the country.
Taking the story up to the present with the twenty-first-century campaign for abortion services, Helen Lewis reveals the unvarnished and unfinished history of women's rights.
Publisher : Random House
Pages : 320
Publication date : 2021-03-16
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, History, Sociology, Feminism & Feminist Theory