When you think of the history of feminism,

imagine your mind might go to the suffragettes of the 19th and early 20th centuries,

and the fight to secure women of vote, or maybe to second-wave feminism,

the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 70s,

who fought for equal pay and reproductive freedom.

If you were to cast your mind further back, perhaps you delight on Mary Walstoncroft,

writing in the late 18th century.

But I imagine you don't associate feminism with the tutors,

or with the early Morton period more generally.

After today's podcast, you'll think differently.

My guest today is the wonderful Dr. Hannah Dawson.

Hannah is a senior lecturer in the history of political thought at King's College London,

having previously held a fellowship at Queen's College Cambridge

and taught at the University of Edinburgh and new college at the humanities.

She has written books on John Locke and on Thomas Hobbes,

but her latest book is The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing,

in which she has collected together 116 excerpts from feminist writers across the globe

and across time. It's a really glorious book,

and I asked her to come and talk to me about three of the earliest writers

that she has featured in it.

Hannah, thank you so much for talking to me about some of the many wonderful ideas

that you've collected in your Penguin Book of Feminist Writing.

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