A review by kirstylikeyeah
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis

2.0

I learned a lot from this book but I do think that anyone who wants to read about the history of these 11 women would do well to maybe just jot down their names from an online article about the book and read about the women online or from sources not written by someone who has such a narrow minded view on what it is to be a woman. I went into this book knowing nothing about Helen Lewis but as I read I could detect something underlying that didn't sit well with me, I was thinking something isn't right here, something in this author isn't sitting well with me. Her comments about trans people where she says something like* "I like trans people but..." was just so bad. I looked her up after reading and I was absolutely not surprised to see she is a bigot.

I love history, especially when it's the history of women, and so I enjoyed learning the women mentioned and that is why I give it two stars, but I wish I had learned about them from someone else. I hope Helen Lewis manages to get over her bigotry. I don't know whether the bigotry is her trying to be a Difficult Woman so people remember who she is and she gets attention and it's all an act, like the K*tie H*pk*ns of historical accounts of feminism.