The Greatest Tyrant in My Life Is the Cooking Stove

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Feminism is about breaking away from all your work to do it, says Orwell. The internet has meant that if you've got two young kids in front of you, you can be quietly scrolling through bums net as you go and get on with it. And then when i hear politicians with peans dilike the traditional family, isn't it brilliant in asian countries where families really look after their old people? It does feel like a strait choice between the two.

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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