Introduction

She has always been there.

Between

Trauma and healing
Destruction and birth
Memories and new adventures
The

Women, Work, and ‘Development’ in Post-independent India – Part I

By Dr Sreenanti Banerjee

Introduction

This blog discusses how Indian women’s unrecognised ‘domestic’ labour, the question of environmental degradation and the economized idea of ‘development’ are integrally related, and therefore

In Her Own Right: Shirley Graham Du Bois in Ghana

 By Dr Nicole Gipson

Portrait in profile of Shirley Graham

The Gandhian Legacy of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

By Dr Sreenanti Banerjee

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903-1988) was an Indian anticolonial feminist activist, a social worker, and a social reformer. She revolutionized the Indian handloom and textile industry, and with that rural women’s livelihood.

African Women and Pan-Africanism  

By Dr Nicole M Gipson 

Global neoliberalism, working through local neo-colonial states, has developed to crisis-fuelled, environmentally destructive, and militarized extremes of extraction, while Africa remains subject as ever to the Western economic doctrines that have

Evidence of Things Unseen:  Ghanaian Women’s Struggle for Independence and Freedom 

By Dr Nicole Gipson 

Throughout history, women have achieved great things – in the dark. The all-encompassing importance of men has cast a shadow on her name. This invisibility