Is There a Difference Between a Woman and a Man?

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Until divorce law reform, women do not exist as full citizens. The domestic violence act wasn't passed until 19 75. Eron pizzy set up the first woman's refuge in chiswick - she is a huge activist now. I love her get up and go but i also feel that it's a really sad story,. because she ended up having surgery in order to fulfil a model of sexual pleasure which was inherently remind jus when this was around the turn of the last century. Now, women are having cosmetic labia plaste on perfectly mall genitals that they now feel or sot are somehow disgusting. So you can run through er, if you can, just kind of quickly,

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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