Historical ContextVideos

Christienna Fryar’s Oxford lecture compares Ann Pratt and Mary Seacole, returning to Mary Prince and historians’ archival responsibilities.

Iranian-British journalist and filmmaker Sahar Zand reflects on memory and explains how hair-cutting became a visible gesture of mourning and solidarity in the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.

Omani journalist and women's-rights advocate Rafiah Al Talei starts from an election defeat to examine barriers to women's political representation and the symbolic burden placed on female candidates.

Indonesian conservationist Farwiza Farhan shows how women rangers in Aceh use local knowledge, collective patrols and community forestry permits to protect the rainforest and water their village depends on.

Feminism in India founder Japleen Pasricha offers an accessible movement history while arguing that contemporary feminism must confront caste, class, sexuality, religion, and digital power together.

An Ohio State teaching video introduces Heian court literature through Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shōnagon. It is an accessible orientation, best paired with close reading on language, class, and historical difference.

The first documentary film to comprehensively cover feminism's second wave, this groundbreaking 2014 work chronicles the women's liberation movement from 1966-1971. Through archival footage and contemporary interviews, the film brings to life the activists who fought for employment equality, reproductive rights, and sexual liberation, while honestly addressing the movement's struggles with race, class, and homophobia.