The Groundbreaking Life of Murasaki Shikibu #OrdinaryWomen

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos: In 10th century Japan, literary prodigy Murasaki Shikibu wrote the first modern novel at a time when women’s names were rarely even written down. Watch More #OrdinaryWomen Episodes: Ordinary Women: Daring to Defy History explores the lives and accomplishments of fascinating women who defied gender stereotypes but often found themselves pushed to the sidelines or erased from history books that weren’t ready to ack