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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.
4 movementsBodies and choice ×2010 to today ×In the past ×
2017 to 2018
In December 2017 Vida Movahed stood on a utility box on Enghelab (Revolution) Street in Tehran, took off her white headscarf and held it up on a stick. Dozens of women copied the protest; many were arrested.
2018 to 2019
Women made up a large share of the protesters who brought down Omar al-Bashir. A photograph of Alaa Salah on a car, leading chants in a white tobe, became the emblem of the 'Kandakas', named after the queens of ancient…
Law and rightsBodies and choiceWar, peace and memory
TimelineThe 'Kandake' photograph, on Wikipedia ↗ (opens in a new tab)
2019
Actor and writer Yumi Ishikawa started a petition against workplaces requiring women to wear high heels. The name plays on kutsu (shoes) and kutsū (pain).
2012 to 2018
The death of Savita Halappanavar in a Galway hospital in 2012, after she was refused an abortion during a miscarriage, galvanised the campaign to repeal the constitutional amendment that equated the life of the unborn…
Law and rightsBodies and choice
TimelineThe 2018 referendum, on Wikipedia ↗ (opens in a new tab)
