Sexed argues that an extraordinary resurgence of feminism is currently taking place in the UK, and seeks to understand this renewed women’s movement historically. In particular, it unearths ideas and arguments about the relevance of sexual difference to feminist advocacy – and the fascinating women who were involved in them. Starting with Mary Wollstonecraft and the utopian socialists, and tracing the decades-long struggle for the suffrage as well as parallel campaigns for education and other rights, Sexed brings this story up to date with the debates over sex and gender, and their relationship to class and race, that featured in the 1970s “second wave” and continue today. Sexed argues that the history of feminism in Britain has too often been obscured or overshadowed – and that feminists in the 2020s can learn a great deal from our shared past.