Modern Feminism
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Modern Feminism and the Woman’s Suffrage Campaign is part of the 2016 Contextual Lecture Series: Taking Liberties.
The fight for women's suffrage was a moral as well as political crusade. Do today's feminists stand inside that tradition – or would feminism's pioneers fail to recognise their own cause?
Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and author, whose weekly column currently appears in The Times. She has previously written for The Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Mail. She is also a regular panellist on BBC Radio Four’s The Moral Maze. She is the author of Londonistan, The World Turned Upside Down: the Global Battle over God, Truth and Power, and The Ascent of Woman, a study of the ideas behind the female suffrage campaign.
You can follow Melanie’s work at www.facebook.com/MelanieLatest or on Twitter at @melanieLatest.
