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Back to the roots of feminism – what has the Wollstonecraft statue achieved?
JULIA BARD examines the controversy caused by Maggi Hambling’s tribute to a great Enlightenment thinker unveiled earlier this week

FIFTY years ago a raucous band of women disrupted the finals of the Miss World competition, describing it as a cattle market.
They sprayed the bouncers with ink, showered the stage with flour bombs and broadcast a fundamental feminist message across the globe, shouting: “We’re not beautiful, we’re not ugly, we’re angry!”
Last week, just before the half-centenary of that consciousness-raising protest, a statue to commemorate Mary Wollstonecraft, the visionary Enlightenment thinker, was inaugurated in Newington Green in north London.
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