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Difficult Women
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  • Published: 16 March 2021
  • ISBN: 9781784709730
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.99

Difficult Women

A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (The Sunday Times Bestseller)

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16 Mar 2021
EBook
27 Feb 2020
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27 Feb 2020
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The imperfect and unfinished story of the battles for women's rights, and of the complicated women who fought them

Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do.

'This is the antidote to saccharine you-go-girl fluff. Effortlessly erudite and funny' Caroline Criado-Perez

Strikers in saris. Bomb-throwing suffragettes. The pioneer of the refuge movement who became a men's rights activist.

Forget feel-good heroines: meet the feminist trailblazers who have been airbrushed from history for being 'difficult' - and discover how they made a difference.

Here are their stories in all their shocking, funny and unvarnished glory.

** Shortlisted in the 2020 Parliamentary Book Awards **

'All the history you need to understand why you're so furious, angry and still hopeful about being a woman now. A book that is part intellectual weapon in your handbag, part cocktail with a friend' Caitlin Moran
'Compulsive, rigorous, unforgettable, hilarious and devastating' Hadley Freeman

'A great manifesto for all those women who have never been very good at being well-behaved.' Mary Beard

'Difficult Women is full of vivid detail, jam-packed with research and fizzing with provocation' Sunday Times
  • Published: 16 March 2021
  • ISBN: 9781784709730
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the author

Helen Lewis

Helen Lewis is a staff writer at The Atlantic, based in London, who writes about politics and culture. Her first book, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights, was a Sunday Times bestseller and a Guardian, Telegraph and Financial Times book of the year. She is the writer and presenter of the BBC podcast series The New Gurus and Helen Lewis Has Left the Chat, and co-host of Radio 4’s Kafka vs Orwell and Strong Message Here. She won the 2024 Kukula Award for excellence in non-fiction book reviewing.
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Praise for Difficult Women

Helen Lewis is one of the very few journalists whose every word I will read.

Adam Rutherford, Week