The Ascent of Woman (2015) | Full Cast

Louise Hooper

DIRECTOR

Hugo Macgregor

DIRECTOR

Amanda Foreman

Self - historian, host and narrator

Nguyen Thi Thanh Hòa

Self - president of the Vietnam Women's Union

Judith Herrin

Self - history professor, King's College London

Catherine Marand-Fouquet

Self - historian and author

Ian Hodder

Self - Archaeologist, Stanford University

Irving Finkel

Self - Philologist and Assyriologist

Elif Safak

Self - author

Béatrice Daël

Self - activist

Yi Zhaoyin

Self - Shanghai Normal University

Meng Man

Self - professor, Minzu University of China

Lydia

Self - Benedictine nun

Payman Abdhalla

Self

Olivier Blanc

Self - author of 'Marie-Olympe de Gouges. Une humaniste à la fin du xviiie siècle'

Anne Paupert

Self - Université de Paris

Elizabeth Crawford

Self - author of 'The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928'

Wei Dong

Self - principal dancer, Shaanxi Grand Opera House

Mayada Alkhalil

Self

Barbara Evans Clements

Self - professor of history emerita, University of Akron

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Self - Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research

Jihan Akrawi

Self

Junko Yamamoto

Self - Kyoto Gakuen University

Fiona Shaw

Self

Jakuchô Setouchi

Self - novelist and Buddhist nun

Leonid T. Yablonsky

Self - Professor, Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography

Sergo Grigorian

Self - art collector

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Self - Pussy Riot

Malcom Gaskill

Self - history professor, University of East Anglia

Yang Shaorong

Self - collector of bound foot shoes

Mariya Alyokhina

Self - Pussy Riot

Wang Huiyuan

Self - 84 years, victim of Chinese foot binding

Leslie P. Peirce

Self - author of 'The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire'

Aisula Takina

Self - Costume Designer

Arzhan Kukhaev

Self - Artisan

Esther Katz

Self - Historian, New York University

Shivangini Tandon

Self - University of Delhi

Evgenia Dimitropoulou

Self

Sunetta Dhar

Self - Jagori Women's Resource Centre

Alexander Sanger

Self - chair of the International Planned Parenthood Council

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Self - Professor of Ancient History, Cardiff University

Nadje Al-Ali

Self - professor of gender studies, University of London

Lindiwe Mazibuko

Self - South African politician

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Self - executive director, UN Women