This was the second of three webinars in advance of the Georgetown Global Dialogues (GGD). In conversations with GGD fellows and other leading thinkers, Pankaj Mishra is exploring some of the questions we will be addressing on campus in April in their wider historical context.
The ongoing struggle for women's equality around the world has a deep—and often buried—history. For millennia social, cultural, and religious forces have held women back, relegating them to second-class status in the family and the wider culture and society. The historical struggle for economic, social, and political rights—from property and divorce law to full suffrage, reproductive freedom, and beyond—has unfolded differently and unevenly within and across cultures.
What are some key milestones in the history of women's liberation around the world? How have women driven the process forward, drawing on resources across philosophical, cultural, and spiritual traditions? What lessons do global histories of feminism hold for today's ongoing struggles? Nesrine Malik and Lijia Zhang reflected on these questions in an online conversation moderated by Pankaj Mishra.
This event was co-sponsored by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security.
