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Fifty women reflect on the shades that inspired them and what it means to be a woman today. Edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach, Fifty Shades of Feminism is described as the antidote to the idea that being a woman is all about submitting to desire; there are many more shades than that. It features contributions from writers, politicians, actors, scientists and mothers.

Appignanesi, a novelist and cultural commentator and author of the award-winning Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors, and Holmes, a writer, activist, programmer and teacher, and director of literature and spoken word at London’s Southbank Centre, discuss the issues raised in the collection with two of the contributors, Labour peer Helena Kennedy QC, and playwright and screenwriter Timberlake Wertenbaker.