# Difficult Women

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- Book: [Difficult Women](https://www.bookquiver.com/helena-katz/difficult-women) ([Difficult Women.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/helena-katz/difficult-women.md))
- Authors: [Helen Lewis](https://www.bookquiver.com/helena-katz)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7356-225-7
- Published: 2020-02-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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