Summary: <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Feminists routinely argue that women remain disadvantaged in society. But as Joanna Williams argues in her new book, <em>Women vs Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars, </em>this is now rarely the case in the UK. In fact, as she explains to Max Sanderson, by emphasising vulnerability, contemporary feminism actually perpetuates some out-dated notions about women and moves us further away from equality and liberation.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Joanna is speaking in the session <a href="https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/session/women-versus-feminism-do-we-all-need-liberating-from-the-gender-wars/">Women versus Feminism: do we all need liberating from the gender wars?</a> at the Battle of Ideas festival at The Barbican in London on 28 October 2017.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><a href="http://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Women-vs-Feminism/?k=9781787144767">Women vs Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars</a> </em>was published by Emerald on 10 October 2017.</span></p>
