Feminisms A Global History

Feminisms: A Global History traces nearly 250 years of feminist thought and activism across Africa, Asia, Australasia, the Americas, and Europe. Historian Lucy Delap challenges the familiar idea of feminism as a sequence of Western “waves,” showing instead that feminist movements developed through varied local struggles, cultures, and political conditions. Organized around themes such as dreams, spaces, objects, looks, feelings, actions, and knowledge, the book examines how people have fought for gender justice while often disagreeing over goals, strategies, and definitions of liberation. It offers historical context for contemporary debates around identity, equality, work, sexuality, race, empire, and rights.