The four waves of feminism are generally agreed to be female suffrage. Third wave is the 19 nineties, and that was really quite focused on sexual harrassment. Fourth wave is that wave of digital feminism, kind of post catlamrans, how to be a woman. fifth wave is why f you remember from the end of the book, caroline, whichia you do? Prompting you or i thelalaon els, so what i what? So my theory about what needs to happen is were we're angry. Let's turn thet engine of change.
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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