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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 movementsEast Asia ×
2015
Five young activists were detained in March 2015, on the eve of International Women's Day, for planning to hand out stickers against sexual harassment on public transport. They were released after 37 days amid a global…
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).
1991 onwardStill going
In August 1991 Kim Hak-sun became the first survivor to speak publicly about being forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military. Survivors and supporters have held a protest outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul…
2018 onwardStill going
After mass protests against hidden-camera crimes in 2018, young Korean women cut their hair short and destroyed their makeup ('Escape the Corset'). Some pledged the '4B' refusals: no dating, no sex, no marriage and no…
