Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Feminist theorists

Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality.

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PhilosophyEnlightenment philosophersEnglish essayistsAtheist philosophersWriters from ParisExistentialistsFrench atheistsPhilosophers of sexualityUniversity of Paris alumni20th-century French philosophersFrench political philosophersEnglish travel writersFrench women philosophers20th-century French novelistsBritish philosophers of educationEnglish feminists, English feminist writersEnglish women novelistsFormer Roman CatholicsFrench philosophers of educationWriters of Gothic fictionEnglish philosophersEnglish republicansFrench LGBTQ novelistsFrench feministsFrench literary criticsFrench women novelistsHistorians of the French RevolutionScholars of feminist philosophy18th-century British essayists18th-century British philosophers18th-century English novelists20th-century French women writersBisexual novelistsBritish women essayistsBurials at Montparnasse CemeteryEnglish UnitariansEnglish educational theoristsEnglish women philosophersFounders of English schools and collegesFrench bisexual women, French bisexual writersFrench communistsFrench philosophers of artGerman–English translatorsJerusalem Prize recipientsSocialist feminists18th-century English historians20th-century French memoiristsBisexual memoirists, Bisexual women writersBurials at St Pancras Old ChurchCommunist women writersDeaths in childbirthFeminist studies scholarsFrench Marxists, French anti-war activistsFrench–English translatorsGodwin familyPeople from Somers Town, LondonPrix Goncourt winners, Deaths from pneumonia in France
  1. Mary Wollstonecraft

    Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan, Karen O'Brien and Barbara Taylor discuss the life and ideas of the pioneering British Enlightenment thinker Mary Wollstonecraft.

    31 December 2009

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    Featuring: Karen O'Brien, John Mullan, Barbara Taylor

     
  2. Simone de Beauvoir

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simone de Beauvoir - her work on existentialist ethics, philosophy and literature and her influence on feminism.

    22 October 2015

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    Featuring: Christina Howells, Margaret Atack, Ursula Tidd