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 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...
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...