Reworlding feminism and social movements from the Global South

Based on the Womandla! Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South Online Seminar Series, this special issue originated in a conference that was to be held in South Africa but became caught up in a moment of ‘reworlding’ experienced globally. This special issue centres women’s experiences of gender in the Global South: editors and authors embrace both the feminist historical tradition and the theoretical insights of decolonial feminisms to enact the practice of writing feminist and gender histories that embody the heterogeneity of women’s historical and contemporary experiences. In tracing the global exchanges taking place between individual activists and their networks, this special issue responds to Su Lin Lewis’s call for creating deeper and more participatory histories of activism in the Global South. Authors approach the idea of the Global South through national and transnational histories of feminist social movements, and especially through the lens of African, Latin American, South Asian, Irish, and global feminisms. By connecting past and present, the articles develop new approaches to the conceptualisation of contemporary social movements and their many predecessors.