Women

 

Ida. B. Wells (2nd from left in pattern), posing with her founded group, The Alpha Suffrage Club of Chicago, Illinois. Participating in Washington’s Woman Suffrage Procession, 1913.

New York Public Library

 
 

Suffragette protesting outside of the White House, Washington, D.C., 1917.

Granger Archive

 
 

Women protesting abortion laws in Boston, Massachusetts on December 9, 1969.

Joe Runci/ The Boston Globe

 
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Students of Saint Joseph Degree college participate in an anti-rape protest in Hyderabad, India, on September 13, 2013.

Noah Seelam/ AFP Photo

 
 
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Protest spark in India after the rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit girl by four upper caste men, 2020.

Jit Chattopadhyay/Pacific Press/Picture Alliance

 
 

Protest continues in response to the Hathras case, 2020.

European Pressphoto Agency

 
 

Illustration of a woman’s bound foot in a lotus shoe (top), and a woman’s bound foot without any compression wrappings (bottom). Chinese Footbinding was considered a status symbol, banned in 1912.

Historical engraving.

Catherine Heard