By Kate Orson2024-05-07T08:00:00
Kate Orson’s formative views on female liberation changed after she looked into the history of early feminism. Now she is asking God what he thinks.
I grew up in a family of two generations of feminists. My grandmother was a headteacher before she retired, and when I was an adult she told me the story of how, when I was very young, she’d asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I’d told her I wanted to be a mummy and have a baby like my mummy. For a family who strongly believed in women working and doing everything men could do, this wasn’t quite the right answer!
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