Global Feminisms

This series explores how global events, ideas and tactics have impacted feminism, and vice versa. How have feminists worked across differences – for example, of race, nation, politics – more and less successfully?

Feminism and the Global Justice Movement

Kelsey Walker 23 November 202322 November 2023

How did feminist activists from the US and the Global South influence the Global Justice Movement?

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May Ayim’s Cosmopolitanism from Below in Europe

Tiffany N. Florvil 2 October 202321 November 2023

May Ayim was key to the Black German civil rights movement in the 1980s and 1990s. But how did her work across borders exemplify cosmopolitanism from below? Tiffany N. Florvil explores the life and networks of a visionary.

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South Asian Women Reimagine Public Space

Mobeen Hussain 2 May 20234 May 2023

How do historical dreams of streets that are safe, joyful, fun and without violence impact on today's movement to reclaim space by South Asian women?

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‘Third World’ Feminisms in Spare Rib Magazine

Lucy Delap 8 March 202310 March 2023

Spare Rib was an iconic magazine of the British women's liberation movement. As Lucy Delap reveals, it was also an important site of debate over Black, post-colonial and 'Third World' feminisms.

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Remembering Bessie Rischbieth

Michelle Staff 20 January 202322 January 2023

Bessie Rischbieth was an Australian feminist who both challenged and upheld imperialism. How might we remember her in her complexity? Michelle Staff explores.

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Colonisation, Enslavement and the Limits of Feminist History

Misha Ewen 5 September 202220 January 2023

Feminist history often focusses on salvaging the experiences of women from the margins of history. But how is feminist history challenged by women complicit it enslavement? Misha Ewen explores in this piece.

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Transnational Suffragettes

Rosa Campbell, James Keating & Sumita Mukherjee 22 August 202219 January 2023

How did the struggle for women's suffrage form part of a transnational movement?

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When Feminists Said No to Europe

Hannah Kaarina Yoken 23 June 202220 January 2023

Why in 1970s Scandinavia did feminists run a campaign against Sweden joining the European Economic Community, later called the EU? Hannah Yoken explores.

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#MeToo in China

Rebecca Turkington 1 June 202220 January 2023

Rebecca Turkington explores how the #MeToo movement in China today is made possible through rich histories of Chinese feminists organising inside, alongside and beyond the state.

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The Forgotten Feminist History of the Universal Basic Income

Toru Yamamori 4 April 202220 January 2023

Across the world people are raising their voices in support of a Universal Basic Income. Toru Yamamori uncovers the forgotten feminist history behind this demand.

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Something New Happening with Women Around the World

Lisa Levenstein 8 March 202220 January 2023

In 1995, 8000 US feminists went to Beijing for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Lisa Levenstein finds that this conference had huge impact on grassroots feminism in the US for years to come.

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