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

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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