Elisabeth Armstrong

Elisabeth Armstrong is a Professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. She teaches courses on feminism, land and labor-based social justice movements around the world. She’s written three books on the praxis of organizing. Her forthcoming book, Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference in 1949, (University of California Press, 2023), is about the leadership of revolutionary women from anticolonial movements around the world. Her book about leftist feminist organizing in India is called Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women’s Association and Globalization Politics (2013), and one addresses the US context of feminist organizing called The Retreat from Organization: US Feminism Reconceptualized (2002). She is a member of the feminist collective of theTricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and on the editorial board of Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism & Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research.