International Women’s Day Book Event: Feminism for the World

International Women’s Day Book Event: Feminism for the World, with co-author Dr Rama Salla Dieng.

To mark International Women’s Day, join GENDER.ED and Black Women* in Edinburgh student society in celebrating the publication of Feminism for the World (Pluto Press, 2025) with co-author Dr Rama Salla Dieng. The Pluto Press link to the book: Feminism for the World - Pluto Press

In the years since #MeToo, misogyny, sexism and gender based violence have flooded the news and our social media timelines. Anti-privilege politics and intersectionality have entered the mainstream—systematically trolled on one end of the spectrum; embraced, to questionable ends, on the other. But what has this increased visibility entailed, other than the marketisation of the feminist struggle? Feminism for the World argues that we have been witnessing an erasure of feminism as a long-term tradition, with its many conflicting histories and geographies of struggle elided and forgotten. In this ground-breaking collection, eight leading international figures of contemporary feminism highlight feminist struggles and traditions from the Global South, presenting feminism as a project that is impossible without international solidarity from the West. In doing so they revive an authentic internationalism and propose paths for present and future generations.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Rama Salla Dieng is a feminist political scientist, an international development researcher, and a writer. She received the 2025 Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research from the Washington-based International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW). Her research focuses on African feminisms, governance and politics, gender and international development, with a particular emphasis on feminist political economy approaches to labour, agrarian change, social reproduction, and political transformation in Africa. She is currently an independent researcher. Between January 2019 and October 2024, she was a Senior Lecturer in International Development and African Studies at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK). Beyond academia, she regularly advises international development agencies and civil society organizations on gender-transformative and feminist policies, intersectionality, and decolonization policy design. Dr. Dieng holds a PhD and an MSc in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London; a double Master’s degree in International Cooperation and Risk Management in Developing Countries from Sciences Po Bordeaux (France); and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Bordeaux.

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