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Short histories of feminist movements, India first. Each links to books on our shelf. These are starting points, not the last word: tell us what is missing through the complaints box or a discussion thread.
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Bhanwari Devi, a grassroots worker (saathin) in a Rajasthan government women's programme, was gang-raped in 1992 after trying to stop a child marriage. Women's groups took the fight to the Supreme Cou…
A forest protection movement in the Garhwal Himalaya, in today's Uttarakhand. Village women, who depended on the forests for fuel, fodder and water, became its most visible protectors, famously holdin…
Pinjra Tod ("break the cage") is a campaign by women students against curfews and restrictive rules in university hostels, starting in Delhi.
Rural women in Andhra Pradesh, many of them learners in an adult literacy campaign, organised against the sale of arrack (cheap liquor) that was fuelling domestic violence and debt. Starting in Dubagu…
Dalit women organised to name the specific violence and exclusion they face at the meeting point of caste, class and gender, and to challenge both upper-caste feminism and male-led Dalit politics. The…
The gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in December 2012 led to weeks of protests, many led by students and young women, demanding safety in public spaces and changes to the law.
In 1978 the Supreme Court acquitted two policemen accused of raping Mathura, a young Adivasi woman, inside a police station in Maharashtra. An open letter from four law teachers challenging the judgme…
A movement against femicide and gender violence that began with mass marches in Argentina on 3 June 2015 and spread across Latin America.
A Black feminist lesbian organisation in Boston. Its 1977 statement argued that oppressions of race, sex, class and sexuality are interlocking, and is often credited with first using the phrase "ident…
Protests that began in Iran in September 2022 after the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini in the custody of the morality police, led in large part by women and young people.
A long campaign for votes for women, carried by both law-abiding suffragists and the more militant suffragettes.
