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Radio 3,04 Mar 2019,14 mins

SeriesForgotten Feminist Futures

Three Hundred Years Hence

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Comedian and author Viv Groskop explores five forgotten feminist futures; from the book that predicted the internet, to the world where men have been wiped out in a gender-specific plague. Episode 1/5: Three Hundred Years Hence, by Mary Griffith, often described as the first utopian novel written by a woman, fifty years before the first female suffrage amendment.

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