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

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