The course will help you question the place of women at work, in the family and in politics. It will help you to understand the reasons for the persistence of women’s secondary condition, and of misogyny, the devaluation of women and violence against women.

Juliet Mitchell, one of the leading figures of the second wave of the women’s movement and the founder of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge takes us back into the analysis which stimulated her thinking about women and shaped her groundbreaking essay, ‘The Longest Revolution’.

Hannah Dawson of King’s College London takes us into the early history of women, passionately reflecting on their condition and pointing out its wrongs, which have lasted for centuries. For her, the history of feminism is a history of trying to make visible things that are completely apparent to some, and yet remain invisible to others.

Today, leading sociologist Maxine Molyneux presents global feminism as constituting four distinct waves of action. She has participated in several of these.

Welcome to today’s talk on The History of Global Feminisms with Professor Durba Mitra of Harvard University. She will show us how the history of global feminisms is deeply entrenched in the history of colonialism, as well as in the history of the rise and fall of slavery.

Welcome to today’s talk on The Long Past of Feminist Action with historian Professor Lucy Delap of the University of Cambridge. She tells us that there are important ways in which we should be looking back at feminist histories.

Welcome to today’s talk on Feminist Economics for Everyone, with economist Professor Susan Himmelweit. She will tell us how feminist economics looks at the economy from the point of view of women’s everyday lives and how it can achieve a better effect for everyone.

Welcome to today’s talk on How Gender Shapes Technology with sociologist Professor Judy Wajcman of the London School of Economics. She will detail for us the crucially important way the notion of masculinity has affected scientific, technical and industrial work and our current world of algorithms.

Welcome to today’s talk on the #MeToo movement and the Need of Structural Change with Professor Durba Mitra of Harvard University. Durba will tell us why it is essential for feminist thought to be enacted in a political movement that starts with the individual but shapes a collective imagination.

We examined the history of feminism and understood why women’s history matters and how historical, social, political and economic processes shaped gender inequalities. We went through the different waves of feminism. We discovered key concepts and terminology, such as gender, and intersectionality. We examined contemporary feminist issues and the growing women’s participation in social and political movements.