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.
The Sex Workers’ Manifesto (First National Conference of Sex Workers in India; 14-16 November 1997, Calcutta)
The Sex Workers’ Manifesto (First National Conference of Sex Workers in India; 14-16 November 1997, Calcutta) By Sreenanti Banerjee [Cover page of ‘First National Conference of Sex Workers’, downloaded from the Feminist Law Archives...
Memorandum by The Campaign for Lesbian Rights: A Key Document on Sexuality and Indian Welfare Feminist Activism in the 1990s – Part I
Memorandum by The Campaign for Lesbian Rights: A Key Document on Sexuality and Indian Welfare Feminist Activism in the 1990s – Part I By Sreenanti Banerjee [Front page of ‘Lesbian Emergence’, downloaded from the Feminist Law Archives...
Female Victimhood and Welfare: The Case of ‘Sati’ (Widow Immolation) in India
Female Victimhood and Welfare: The Case of ‘Sati’ (Widow Immolation) in India By Dr Sreenanti Banerjee The Event On the 4th of September 1987, Roop Kanwar (1969-1987), an Indian Rajput woman, was compelled to immolate herself in the village...
Postcolonial Feminism and Welfare Reform
Postcolonial Feminism and Welfare Reform By Sreenanti Banerjee This blog is a summary of a forthcoming encyclopedia entry titled ‘Postcolonial Feminism and Welfare Reform.’ It explores how postcolonial feminist scholarship has shaped, responded to, and interrogated...
‘Towards Equality’ Report: A Document to Remember
‘Towards Equality’ Report: A Document to Remember By Dr Sreenanti Banerjee Vijayendra Rao [@bijurao]. ‘Towards Equality: Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India.’ Twitter, April 4 2024, 11.41 PM, https://twitter.com/bijurao/status/1776017157295353898...
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, among other things, revolutionized the Indian handloom and textile...