Is There a Role for Men in Feminist Movement?

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Men have been part of the feminist movement from the very, very beginning. Do you think that the burden should be put back on women to invite more men into the conversation? Men are intertwined with our lives because they also have an interest in addressing the people and their lives that affect them. I remember when you did your statue, one of the prime movers behind the scenes is the kind of mycroft homes of the british establishment, danny finklesteinright? He did a huge amount of work behind the cenes because caroline had a clear aim that that he could sign up to,. That's something that any one, male or female, can sign up to

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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