Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement AnthologyRobin Morgan Sisterhood Is Global has been revered as the essential feminist text on the international women's movement since its first appearance, when it was hailed as "a historic publishing event." The anthology features original essays Morgan commissioned from a deliberately eclectic mix of women both famous and less known-grass-roots activisits, politicians, scholars, querillas, novelists, social scientists, and journalists-representing seventy countries, from every region and political system, with particular emphasis on the Global South. These truth-telling, impassioned essays celebrate the diversity as well as the similarity of women's experience; they also reveal shared female rage, vision, and pragmatic strategies for worldwide feminist solidarity and political transformation. The first such international collection, Sisterhood Is Global became an instant classic and remains unequalled in its breadth and comprehensiveness. The book covers Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, and includes moving essays from such distinguished writers as Marjorie Agosin (Chile), Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana), Shulamit Aloni (Israel), Peggy Antrobus (Caribbean), Simone de Beauvoir (France), Lidia Falcon (Spain), Hema Goonatilake (Sri Lanka), Fatima Mernessi (Morocco), Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt), Ana Titkow (Poland), Marilyn Waring (New Zealand), and Xiao Lu (China). |
Contents
The Silent Victims | 39 |
Preface | 43 |
The DaytoDay Struggle | 45 |
Preface | 48 |
The Fire Cannot Be Extinguished | 52 |
Preface | 58 |
Women in a Warrior Society | 61 |
Preface | 67 |
The Harem Window | 417 |
Preface | 422 |
The Wave of Consciousness Cannot Be Reversed | 427 |
Preface | 434 |
Pioneers and Promoters of Women | 439 |
Preface | 442 |
The Merchants Daughter and the Son of the Sultan | 445 |
Preface | 452 |
Benevolent Despotism Versus the Contemporary Feminist Movement | 70 |
Preface | 75 |
A Fertile but Ambiguous Feminist Terrain | 78 |
Preface | 87 |
The Politics of Survival | 92 |
Preface | 98 |
The Empowerment of Women | 102 |
Preface | 109 |
Fighting Until the End | 112 |
A Journey in the Making | 116 |
HaitiA Vacation Paradise of Hell | 124 |
We Women Arent Sheep | 129 |
Preface | 133 |
Women of Smoke | 136 |
Preface | 140 |
Feudal Attitudes Party Control and Half the Sky | 149 |
Preface | 155 |
Fighting for the Right to Fight | 158 |
Preface | 164 |
Paradise Gained Paradise LostThe Price of Integration | 167 |
Preface | 176 |
Letter from a Troubled Copenhagen Redstocking | 179 |
Preface | 185 |
NeededA Revolution in Attitude | 188 |
Preface | 192 |
When a Woman Rebels | 197 |
Preface | 205 |
We Cannot Wait | 208 |
Preface | 213 |
The Right to Be Oneself | 216 |
Preface | 222 |
FeminismAlive Well and in Constant Danger | 227 |
Preface | 234 |
Witch Vilmmas Invention of SpeechSwallowing A Parable | 240 |
Preface | 243 |
Fragmented Selves A Collage | 246 |
Preface | 253 |
To Be a Woman | 256 |
Preface | 264 |
A Village Sisterhood | 270 |
Preface | 276 |
Our Daily Bread | 280 |
Preface | 284 |
The Nonexistence of Womens Emancipation | 287 |
Preface | 292 |
A Condition Across Caste and Class | 303 |
Preface | 309 |
Multiple Roles and Double Burdens | 316 |
Preface | 322 |
A Future in the PastThe Prerevolutionary Womens Movement | 328 |
Preface | 337 |
Preface | 341 |
Coping with the Womb and the Border | 345 |
Preface | 351 |
Up the Down Escalator | 358 |
Preface | 363 |
A Mortified Thirst for Living | 368 |
Preface | 374 |
The Sun and the Shadow | 380 |
Preface | 387 |
Not Just Literacy but Wisdom | 392 |
Preface | 397 |
A Grandmothers Vision | 402 |
Preface | 404 |
Gods Willand the Process of Socialization | 408 |
Preface | 412 |
Women as a Caste | 458 |
Preface | 463 |
In the Unions the Parties the Streets and the Bedrooms | 467 |
Preface | 474 |
Foreigners in Our Own Land | 478 |
Preface | 483 |
To My Companeras on the Planet Earth | 488 |
Preface | 492 |
Not Spinning on the Axis of Maleness | 496 |
Preface | 503 |
More Power to Women | 507 |
Preface | 513 |
All It Requires Is Ourselves | 515 |
Preface | 523 |
WomenA Fractured Profile | 528 |
Preface | 534 |
Women and the Revolution | 538 |
Preface | 544 |
Not Even with a Rose Petal | 548 |
Preface | 553 |
Lets Pull Down the Bastilles Before They Are Built | 558 |
Preface | 565 |
Daring to Be Different | 569 |
Preface | 574 |
The Right to Be Persecuted | 578 |
Preface | 580 |
An Emerging Social Force | 585 |
Preface | 587 |
Elegance Amid the Phallocracy | 591 |
Preface | 598 |
Going up the Mountain | 609 |
A Bulletin from Within | 616 |
Preface | 619 |
Women Are the Conscience of Our Country | 624 |
Preface | 630 |
The Voice of Women | 635 |
Preface | 642 |
Womens Studiesand a New Village Stove | 648 |
Preface | 653 |
Similarity Singularity and Sisterhood | 659 |
Preface | 665 |
We Superwomen Must Allow the Men to Grow Up | 669 |
Preface | 674 |
Its Time We Began with Ourselves | 681 |
Preface | 688 |
Good Grief There Are Women Here | 690 |
Preface | 694 |
Honoring the Vision of Changing Woman | 703 |
Preface | 712 |
For As Long As It Takes | 714 |
Preface | 720 |
The Braided Army | 726 |
Preface | 729 |
Neofeminismand Its Six Mortal Sins | 732 |
Zambia | 737 |
Feminist ProgressMore Difficult Than Decolonization | 740 |
Zimbabwe | 744 |
It Can Only Be Handled by Women | 750 |
CrossCultural RebellionA Sampling of Feminist Proverbs | 754 |
Sister | 756 |
Glossary | 759 |
Bibliography | 765 |
Acknowledgments | 807 |
A Womans Creed | 811 |
Index | 813 |
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