Book Talk | Durba Mitra - The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism

Women from former colonies in South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and beyond envisioned a radically just world—and did so by insisting that research on women lay at the heart of debates about global inequality, development, and human rights. This talk shows how women seized the means of knowledge production and imagined a future freer than our present.

Durba Mitra is the Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. In addition to The Future That Was, she is the author of Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought.

Sponsored by the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities; co-sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council at the Yale MacMillan Center