Difficult women : a history of feminism in 11 fights

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Difficult women : a history of feminism in 11 fights

Title remainder

a history of feminism in 11 fights

Statement of responsibility

Helen Lewis

Creator

• trueLewis, Helen

Author

• trueLewis, Helen

Subject

• trueSuffragists -- Great Britain
• Feminism -- Great Britain -- History
• Women's rights -- Great Britain -- History
• Women -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History
• Feminists -- Great Britain -- History

Language

eng

Summary

The first book by the acclaimed journalist Helen Lewis - the imperfect and unfinished story of the battles for women's rights. Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. Helen Lewis argues that feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It's 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 pioneer of the refuge movement who became a men's rights activist; the 'striker in a sari' who terrified Margaret Thatcher; the wronged Victorian wife who definitely wasn't sleeping with the prime minister; 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. Drawing on archival research and interviews, Difficult Women is a funny, fearless and sometimes shocking narrative history, which shows why the feminist movement has succeeded - and what it should do next. The battle is difficult, and we must be difficult too

Cataloging source

VHEI

Dewey number

305.42

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography