The case of Mary Stopes again the context is interesting so after the First World War with so many men dead there was a big grandswell about what about our birth rate. In 1939 she sent a volume of her love poetry to Hitler with a covering letter that said love is the greatest thing in the world and I mean that's also a story about how bad Mary Stopes's poetry was really very boring you read it. She gave into that pre-second World War intellectual eugenicism that said actually you know there are people at the top and they need to kind of tell everybody else how to live their lives. But nonetheless at the anybody now who talks about contraception reproductive rights has to
International Women’s Week on Intelligence Squared. Change is never easy, it requires putting up a fight, going against the status quo, and if you’re a woman - this may require you to be difficult. In 2020 Helen Lewis, staff writer for The Atlantic, joined us on stage to discuss the lives of some of history’s complicated and contradictory fighters for female freedom, and their refusal to conform to societal expectations. Helen was joined by Caroline Criado Perez, journalist and author of Invisible Women, which is now also a podcast. And the conversation was chaired by broadcaster Samira Ahmed who had just won the employment tribunal she brought against the BBC in a dispute over equal pay. Together they examine why women who challenge the status quo are often seen as threatening or intimidating and why the fight for change is far from perfect.
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