Ela’s Reviews > Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights > Status Update

‘This is important: the story of gendered time is not one of beastly oppressive men and poor downtrodden women. It’s a story of cultural scripts we all follow without thinking.’

‘This is another way feminists get screwed over by history. Women like Barbara castle and Harriet Hartman fought great battles to enact legislation which now seems like common sense. So they get little credit. The mainstream tradition of the party, which once regarded their views as madly fringe, instead rewrites them as pushing at an open door.’

‘Once they were established as independent citizens in the public realm, women were able to agitate for greater private freedoms’