Are You a Difficult Woman?

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Caroline says she's always been a bit of a girly swat, to now use a very fashionable term. The first chapter in the book is about her divorce - which happened before she was 30. As a man, you can often be encouraged to kind of wing it, and people find that charming,. But we don't really find that charming in the same way for women. So i'm hoping to become more sloppy and careless as the years go by.

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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