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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.
3 movementsLand and environment ×1948 to 1989 ×
Late 1970s to 1980s
Delhi women's groups such as Stree Sangharsh and Mahila Dakshata Samiti protested outside the homes of families accused of 'dowry deaths' passed off as kitchen accidents. Their campaigns led to Section 498A on cruelty…
Violence and safetyLand and environment
Timeline and booksRead more on Wikipedia ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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…
