Almost any feminist action gets dismissed as not being the thing that you should actually be talking about. And also, if it really is h unimportant, it doesn't matter. We'll just give me what i want, then here go. If you really don't care either way, and i do care, why don't i have my way? That's the bit i write about in the book about the edinburgh seven who wanted to be admitted to university. There was a kind of apathy about it. Well, women wanting to go to university, y seems like a reasonawle ask, but i don't see why. It's our our priority right now.
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.
To find out more about the book click here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/difficult-women/helen-lewis/9781784709730
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