Green Women

Karen Ingala Smith is a long-standing feminist, active notably on highlighting and combatting male violence against women. She is the chief executive of domestic violence charity Nia. Co-chair Dawn Furness talked to her earlier in the year about the domestic violence surge during lockdown, why she founded the Femicide Census, and more.You can find more on the census here: femicidecensus.org

One of the founders of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft, died on this day 10th September exactly 223 years ago. For our first episode, we are celebrating her life and her struggle for women’s rights with this extract from her most famous work, the Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792. Enjoy.You can read the rest of the extract here: https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111wollstone.html