🎧 Early Modern Feminists
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In this edition of Not Just The Tudors, Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Dr. Hannah Dawson, editor of The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing who draws on poems, novels and memoirs to show that even in Tudor times, and earlier, there was not only insight that sexism existed, but women were articulating their struggle against patriarchal oppression.
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🎧 Sodomy and Sex Crimes in Early Mode...
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