This session explores the centrality of women in twentieth-century transnational anticolonial networks. Although a wave of recent research has demonstrated that transnational anticolonial activism was fundamental to the ways decolonization unfolded, it has focused almost exclusively on the actions of men, who by default have emerged as the central protagonists of anticolonial transnational movements. This panel features authors seeking scholarly engagement with their work for a forthcoming volume called Women in the Anticolonial Transnational (to be published by Cambridge University Press), which will demonstrate the myriad ways women were central to transnational anticolonial movements, whether by organizing behind the scenes, publishing propaganda, marching in the streets, performing espionage, or coordinating armed attacks. These papers show that women did this work, moreover, while navigating patriarchal norms, the threat of sexual violence, and imprisonment. Panelists demonstrate that women were not merely there as transnational anticolonial movements developed: instead they argue that these movements cannot be fully understood without accounting for their actions, whether behind the scenes or in public. To that end, Disha Karnad Jani explores the role militant violence played in radical women’s debates about women's political involvement in interwar Europe, suggesting that some women sought to move beyond sanctioned pacifist resistance as they were confronted by poverty, fascist violence in public, and domestic violence at home. Michele Louro then delves into the transcontinental networks of three revolutionary women in the 1930s: the Chinese Song Qing-ling, the American Agnes Smedley, and the Russian Tatyana Moiseenko. She traces the complex networks of these three women—who knew each other and moved in many of the same anticolonial, pro-communist circles—to demonstrate the ways women were vital to the activities of leftist revolutionaries in this period. Betul Basaran’s paper centers our attention on the mid-twentieth century with her focus on the ways Princess Niloufer (the daughter-in-law of the Nizam of Hyderabad) contributed to women’s anticolonial transnational networks in India. With Niloufer, who was connected to a variety of transnational networks and who was an advocate for women’s rights, Basaran demonstrates the centrality of women to anticolonial activity outside of organized political movements. Finally, Keisha Blain takes us to the 1958 All-African People’s Conference in Accra, Ghana, which brought together influential leaders from across the Black diaspora and explicitly challenged colonialism and white supremacy. She argues that the eight women who attended the conference as delegates—despite representing a tiny minority of the total—worked hard to make their voices heard and to assert their political power in male-dominated spaces. Their tactics, she concludes, were important in shaping transnational anticolonial movements more generally in the 20^th century. Taken together, these papers make a strong case for the centrality of women to transnational anticolonial networks all over the world in the twentieth century. Panelists are drawn from a diverse range of academic ranks, from post-doctoral researcher to full professor, and represent diversity in terms of both national origin and racial identity.