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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.
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5 mar 2020 · In her introduction, Lewis sets this idea of “difficult” female pioneers against contemporary feminism that, seen through the reductive lens of social media and call-out culture, often demands...
5 feb 2019 · As Strayed puts it, difficult women are “ambitious and bold, adventurous and emotional, brainy and defiant, incorrigible and outlandish, determined and badass.”
Difficult Women is a 2017 short story collection by Roxane Gay. [1] Content. In Vogue, Julia Fesenthal characterized Difficult Women as "a misogynist 's taxonomy of the opposite sex.
This is a really accessible and inspirational book about how British women fought for equal rights in the key battlegrounds of divorce, the vote, sex, play, safety, love, education, time (as in ‘me time’), abortion and ‘the right to be difficult’ (meaning not always have to adhere to an ideal feminine standard of being ladylike ...
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27 feb 2020 · 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.
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11 mag 2018 · Meet the ‘Difficult’ Women Who Wrote Their Own Rules. These 29 women weren’t willing to be anything but fully themselves, from Jane Goodall to Frida Kahlo to Billie Jean King.
