Resources
On this page you can find a series of blog posts written by the project team. These offer a snapshot of our research projects, which we hope will also serve as a useful resource for anyone interested in global histories in women’s welfare activism.
Global History and the Politics of Language: Some Preliminary Reflections
Global History and the Politics of Language: Some Preliminary Reflections By Dr Sreenanti Banerjee Tahzib-i nisvan (Volume 35, Issue 19) [1932] EAP566/2/1/21/19[1] This blog reflects upon the relationship between the act of doing global history and the politics of...
‘…Nothing Without a Woman or a Girl’: Emerging Perspectives on the Status of Women 1975 -1980
‘…Nothing Without a Woman or a Girl’: Emerging Perspectives on the Status of Women 1975 -1980 By Dr Nicole Gipson 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
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...
In Her Own Right: Shirley Graham Du Bois in Ghana
In Her Own Right: Shirley Graham Du Bois in Ghana By Dr Nicole Gipson Portrait of Shirley Graham Du Bois seated indoors at her typewriter, ca 1945. Shirley Graham Du Bois Papers Portrait in profile of Shirley Graham...
The Gandhian Legacy of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
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...
African Women and Pan-Africanism
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...
Evidence of Things Unseen: Ghanaian Women’s Struggle for Independence and Freedom
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...