Difficult Women, with Helen Lewis and Rosamund Urwin

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🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Helen Lewis argues that feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It's time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history of difficult women. To find out more about the book click here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/difficult-women/helen-lewis/9781784709730 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:10.3	Hello podcast listeners, I'm Connor and welcome to this week's episode of Intelligence Squared.
1:14.8	Today we're joined by Helen Lewis, author of Difficult Women, the History of Feminism in 11
1:20.5	Fights. And in conversation with Ross Irwin, they discuss the complicated and perfect and often
1:25.9	contradictory fight for equal rights. It's a really fascinating conversation with some
1:30.8	reflections on the current COVID-19 pandemic. And if you do enjoy it, you can find a link for Helen's
1:35.7	book in the podcast description. But before we go to this week's episode, I wanted to let you know
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