Helen Lewis: Difficult Women

The Open University is delighted to be supporting this event with journalist and broadcaster Helen Lewis at Aye Write, Glasgow's Book Festival.

Helen Lewis' book Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights has received rave reviews from the likes of Caitlin Moran, Hadley Freeman and Mary Beard.

The well-behaved women don't make history, difficult women do. 

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.

Tickets are £11.00 and can be booked via the Aye Write website. 

There's a wide variety of free learning resources about world-changing women on the OU's free learning site, OpenLearn, including an interactive on 'How women changed the world'.