This book explores the role of women as ideologues, agents, activists and visionaries as part of the movement. It deciphers the structural inequalities pertaining to the secondary status ascribed to them through discrimination and all forms of oppression and the process of the transformation they seek to restructure. As a historical narrative it traces the movement from the precolonial to the colonial periods and finally to contemporary history. … Women's activism gets the place it deserves in history because of the innumerable protests that the women have undertaken are recorded over a period of thirty years. This publication takes note of the controversies and debate that are associated with this reconstruction. Blurb source: back cover