🎧 Early Modern Feminists
🎧 Not Just the Tudors • 36m
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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