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Chapter 44: Feminism’s First Wave — World History 101

How Mary Wollstonecraft, Seneca Falls, and the Pankhursts turned Enlightenment principles back on themselves and won, after seven decades of organising, the legal right of women to vote.
Chapter 54: Passive Resistance and the Activist Tradition — World History 101

Satyagraha, sit-ins, and the strategic power of refusing to fight back: how Gandhi, King, and the White Rose reshaped twentieth-century politics.
Chapter 56: Women’s Liberation in the Age of Mass Media — World History 101

Second-wave feminism, the workplace, and intersectionality: how the postwar women’s movement reframed equality as a daily-life issue rather than a constitutional one.
Chapter 61: South Africa and the Legacy of Apartheid — World History 101

From the Sharpeville massacre to Mandela’s presidency: how a white-minority regime built apartheid, why it fell, and what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission tried to do next.