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Short histories of 65 feminist movements, India and South Asia first. Each has a timeline, links to read more elsewhere, and books from our shelf where we have them. These are starting points, not the last word: tell us what is missing through the complaints box or a discussion thread.
1 movementIceland ×1948 to 1989 ×In the past ×
24 October 1975
About 90 per cent of Iceland's women stopped paid work, housework and childcare for a day to show how much the country depended on them. Five years later Iceland elected Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, the world's first…
