Durba Mitra
Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University
I’m the Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. I am a scholar of the history of sexuality and epistemology in South Asia and the comparative colonial and post-colonial world.
EXPs by Durba Mitra
The history of global feminisms is deeply entrenched in the history of colonialism and the history of the rise and fall of slavery in the 19th century.
Women’s leadership and feminist political organising have been critical to all kinds of political movements. This is particularly true in relation to minority rights.
Feminists have long theorised about how to consider evidence and women’s testimony as factual. The question of evidence in cases of sexual violence has been critical to feminist organising for the last 50 years.