Difficult Women

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'All the history you need to understand why you're so furious, angry and still hopeful about being a woman now' Caitlin Moran

Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do.

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. 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… Keep Reading