Megha Mohan

Herlands is a powerful and necessary reminder that women’s leadership is not an exception; it is tradition, it is history, and it is the future. With the clarity and care of a journalist who listens deeply, Megha Mohan honours the systems women have sustained for generations

Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, Prime Minister of Samoa

A lantern in the dark, revealing the quiet power of women-led communities across the globe. With lyrical precision and journalistic integrity, Megha Mohan gathers their stories like sacred threads, weaving a tapestry of resilience, leadership, and radical hope

Sulaima Ishaq, head of Sudan’s Combating Violence Against Women and Children Commission

An immersive and absorbing read from a journalist who takes trust, tone and ethics seriously

Lessons From Societies Where Women Make the Rules

Society isn’t working for women. Or any of us. 
 
But what if the rules were different? 
 
Imagine a world in which women have all the power. A world in which they work together to shape their rules, societies and futures. In myth, literature and throughout history such groups have always existed, and today all-women communities thrive all over the world. In this urgent and ground-breaking book, Megha Mohan goes in search of the roots of these societies, discovering a vibrant, worldwide history brought together here for the first time. Herlands asks: How and why do these groups exist today? And what can the rest of society learn from them? 
 
Using her great-grandmother’s matrilineal Nair community as a starting point, Mohan introduces readers to some of the countless women-only groups living on their own terms, often operating discretely from the male-dominated cultural and political mainstream. From the Megalia feminist ‘trolls’ of South Korea, a secret Womyn’s Land in the American Deep South, gatherings of millionaire girlbosses and the rise and fall of a women-only island in the Baltic Sea, to the survivors of sexual violence in rural Kenya, Herlands will offer a global look at women’s community and why it matters for us all.

Megha Mohan

Praise for Herlands

Herlands is a powerful and necessary reminder that women’s leadership is not an exception; it is tradition, it is history, and it is the future. With the clarity and care of a journalist who ...

A lantern in the dark, revealing the quiet power of women-led communities across the globe. With lyrical precision and journalistic integrity, Megha Mohan gathers their stories like sacred th ...

An immersive and absorbing read from a journalist who takes trust, tone and ethics seriously

Herlands is a powerful and necessary reminder that women’s leadership is not an exception; it is tradition, it is history, and it is the future. With the clarity and care of a journalist who ...

A lantern in the dark, revealing the quiet power of women-led communities across the globe. With lyrical precision and journalistic integrity, Megha Mohan gathers their stories like sacred th ...

An immersive and absorbing read from a journalist who takes trust, tone and ethics seriously

Herlands is a powerful and necessary reminder that women’s leadership is not an exception; it is tradition, it is history, and it is the future. With the clarity and care of a journalist who ...

A lantern in the dark, revealing the quiet power of women-led communities across the globe. With lyrical precision and journalistic integrity, Megha Mohan gathers their stories like sacred th ...

An immersive and absorbing read from a journalist who takes trust, tone and ethics seriously

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