The Ascent of Woman

Biographer and historian Dr. Amanda Foreman presents a landmark series on the history of women from the dawn of civilisation to the modern day. This ambitious series sets out to redress a significant imbalance in global history, exploring the extraordinary and often overlooked role that women have played in the forging of the modern world.

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Created By	Amanda Foreman
Status	Ended
Original Name	The Ascent of Woman
First Air Date	September 2, 2015
Last Air Date	September 23, 2015
Seasons	1
Episodes	4
Episode Runtime	59min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	United Kingdom
Production Companies	Silver River Productions
Networks	BBC Two

S01E04

Revolution

In this final episode, Dr. Amanda Foreman looks at the role of women in revolutions that have transformed the modern world: from political uprisings to reproductive rights. Amanda discovers through women like campaigner and writer Olympe De Gouges that the French Revolution’s promise of equality, liberty and brotherhood would be limited to men; Bolshevik radical Alexandra Kollontai would find that while her fellow Russian Revolutionaries may have put women’s rights at the forefront of ideological change, the post-revolutionary world would be as rife with gender bias as the societies they’d helped transform.

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