You Really Need Both

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i find it frustrating, na, how people should have allined themselves with one or the other. You need bes apensa movement. And i think a lot of mistakes that are made in modern campaigning are people forgetting that you need both. So there are people who are very, very at getting attention, but very bad at backing that up with what they actually want. Can i ask helen? I mean, i didnt if helen you would talk about the women in the past. Well, we come back to this issue of the the protesters, and, to some extent, the disrupters and who might make headlines,. The people who are quietly trying to work things through the

In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we are joined by Helen Lewis, staff writer for the Atlantic, who claims that too many pioneers of women’s rights have been whitewashed or forgotten because society likes its heroines to be cuddly and safe. Lewis believes it’s time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history of difficult women, and on Tuesday February 25 she came to the Intelligence Squared stage to set out the arguments of her new book, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights. She appeared in conversation with the feminist campaigner Caroline Criado Perez and BBC broadcaster Samira Ahmed.

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