*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.

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