Some of these women were very hard to work with indeed. You know, they were monomaniacal and tyrannical. They alienated every one around them. And then the final sort of sense of it is that idea about women as hard to understandwe not ask noony to put women at the front of the cue. i think that's big thing still in current leftwing politics too.
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.
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