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Donne Difficili

€19,90

Educated women don't make history. Difficult women do.

Synopsis

If over the centuries women have acquired rights and awareness, the credit goes to some personalities – complicated, contradictory, imperfect – who have struggled with themselves, while fighting for a more just world. Pioneers of emancipation and gender battles, fundamental figures of our modernity who have often been sweetened, or even forgotten, in our current search for pleasant and reassuring heroines.
For journalist Helen Lewis, it is time to look at the history of feminism as a history of difficult women, beyond all the rhetoric. From the suffragettes who preached bonfires and attacks, to the princess who complained about unsatisfying sex, from the lesbian politics that scandalized an entire country, to the courageous campaigns for the right to abortion: Difficult Women sheds light on some of the decisive, and little-known, moments of a struggle that is still current.
A gripping, even shocking tale of all the obstacles the feminist movement has overcome. Because to win a difficult battle, equally difficult protagonists are needed.

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Translation by Marina Calvaresi, Dafne Calgaro
Year of publication: October 2024
Number of pages: 447 pages
Format: 14 x 21 cm
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9788831321969

Author

Helen Lewis, born in 1983, is an English writer and journalist. She lives in London and works as a staff writer for The Atlantic magazine. She studied English language and literature at Oxford University. She was deputy editor of the New Statesman and hosted a radio programme for the BBC called The Spark. She has written for the Sunday Times, Elle, New York Times, Vogue, Guardian, Financial Times. In 2013 she coined the so-called “Lewis Law”: “Comments on any article about feminism justify feminism.” Her first book, Difficult Women, was a Sunday Times bestseller and book of the year for the Guardian, Times, Telegraph and Financial Times.

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Donne Difficili

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