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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.
2 movementsLand and environment ×1948 to 1989 ×Still going ×
1973 onwardStill going
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 holding on to trees to…
1977 onwardStill going
Founded by Wangari Maathai, the movement paid rural women to plant trees, tackling deforestation, firewood shortages and poverty together, and grew into a wider fight for democracy in Kenya. Maathai won the Nobel Peace…
