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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 movementWork and money ×Africa ×1948 to 1989 ×
9 August 1956
About 20,000 women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria against the extension of apartheid pass laws to women, singing 'Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo' (you strike a woman, you strike a rock). 9 August is now…
