Suddenly, it feels a lot like 1984—not the iconic 1984 of Orwell’s dystopia, but the 1984 in which Margaret Atwood composed The Handmaid’s Tale. This was the same year that saw the release of…
In July 1985, Nairobi hosted a meeting of over 14,000 women at the United Nations’ Third World Conference on Women.2 Domestic and international women’s rights activists held a concurrent meet…