Topic: Feminism

Two white men in suits and ties address a room full of mostly male journalists at the United Nations Population Conference in Bucharest in 1974.

“A very small number of men control all the money and the ideas”: Women Revolutionize Population Programs in the 1970s

Women and technocratic elites clashed at the 1974 World Population Conference. At stake was women’s control over their own bodies.

The Fairy Godmothers of Women’s Studies

Moving scholarship by and about women from margin to center.

In Brief: “Manels” Before #MeToo

A foundation’s early criticism of the all-male conference panel, before #nomoremanels

In Brief: The 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference

The global conversation about women’s issues takes a big step forward.