All About Power
All About Power by Srilatha Batliwala is a feminist leadership primer that explores how social power and power structures influence inequality and social change. It offers a practical framework to define, analyse and challenge power dynamics across contexts, helping activists build deeper, shared understanding for transformative strategies in gender justice work.
What you’ll learn from this primer
- Introduces a structured way to understand what power is and why it matters for social change.
- Explains where power operates—within individuals, between groups, and across social,political, and economic institutions.
- Highlights how power analysis reveals invisible norms sustaining inequalities and informs strategies that go beyond surface-level interventions.
- Encourages activists to build a shared understanding of power to more effectively challenge structures that perpetuate injustice.
