Difficult Women

<p><b>Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do.</b><br> <b><br> 'This is the antidote to saccharine you-go-girl fluff. Effortlessly erudite and funny' </b><b>Caroline Criado-Perez</b><br><br> Strikers in saris. Bomb-throwing suffragettes. The pioneer of the refuge movement who became a men's rights activist.<br><br> Forget feel-good heroines: meet the feminist trailblazers who have been airbrushed from history for being 'difficult' - and discover how they made a difference.<br><br> Here are their stories in all their shocking funny and unvarnished glory.<br><b><br> ** Shortlisted in the 2020 Parliamentary Book Awards **</b><br><br> <b>'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' </b><b>Caitlin Moran</b><br><b>'Compulsive rigorous unforgettable hilarious and devastating' </b><b>Hadley Freeman</b><b><br><br> 'A great manifesto for all those women who have never been very good at being well-behaved</b>.' <b>Mary Beard</b><br><br> <b>'<i>Difficult Women </i>is full of vivid detail jam-packed with research and fizzing with provocation'</b> <b><i>Sunday Times</i></b></p>