Women of the world unite

An hour-long roundtable of conversation between three world-leading scholars of transnational feminism reflecting on the legacies of the UN Decade for Women 1975. The event will include a 30-minute Q&A inviting questions from the audience. 

The UN Decade for Women 1975 was a seminal moment in galvanising transnational feminist struggles. In 2025, the Women’s Library at LSE organised an exhibition, ''Women of the world unite: the UN Decade for Women and transnational feminisms 1975 to now'' to mark the 50-year anniversary. The exhibition highlighted the multifaceted nature of feminist struggles around the world, which called for equality alongside struggles against slavery, suffrage, imperialism, colonialism, fascism, capitalism, and militarism.

Three world-leading scholars of transnational feminism will reflect on the vibrancy, diversity and contestations of transnational feminisms across time and place. You will hear about the legacies of the UN Decade for Women as well as broader historical and contemporary movements of transnational feminism.

Image credit: WIDF's World Congress of Women in Moscow in 1963. From The Women's Library at LSE, TWL.2004.497.

• Sumi Madhok, Professor of Political Theory and Gender Studies, Department of Gender Studies at LSE. 
• Durba Mitra, Stanley Kelley Jr Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. 
• Imaobong Umoren, Associate Professor of International History, Department of International History at LSE. 
• Chaired by SM Rodriguez, Associate Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights, Department of Gender Studies at LSE. 

All welcome

Those interested in transnational feminist struggles around the world, both historically and in the contemporary moment.