The Incidental Feminist

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Meet the woman behind the politician</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>'Offers</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>a remarkable new view</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>of a remarkable and still under-appreciated leader' Simon Jenkins</strong></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Since stepping down in 1990 Margaret Thatcher has become a cardboard cut-out hate figure or an iconic defender of freedom depending on your politics. In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The Incidental Feminist: Friend foe femme fatale: The truth about Thatcher</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> Tina Gaudoin investigates the complexities of the woman behind the tropes.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Drawing upon explosive new material from the archives and interviews with her contemporaries Gaudoin reveals how Thatcher triumphed over rampant misogyny and class prejudice to normalise female power and manipulated her femininity sexuality and intellect to become the most powerful woman in the world.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Publishing to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's birth</strong></p><p></p>