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This week, in the run up to international women's day, which is taking place this sunday, we put on an event called difficult women, the defining fights of feminism. Helen lewis appeared in conversation with caroline criado peres, who is the author of a book titled invisible women. And the conversation was chared by samira amed, who recently won a lawsuit against the b b c over equal pay. Wou hope you anjoy listening to this episode and if you are interested in watching some of these live discussions, make sure to check out and subscribe to our utub channel, intelligence squared.

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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