Word: morgans
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...Morgan's latest effort, Sisternood is Global, we learn that the drive for women's economic, political and social parity with men is not confined to the United States, or even to democratic, "developed," or industrial societies. Feminists are to be found, to name a few places, in South Africa, fighting for the end of forced sterilization of Black women, in Cuba and Nicaragua, vying for political recognition from their revolutionary brothers, in China, seeking to stem the recent upsurge of female infanticide, and in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, demonstrating against development policies and multi-national corporations that threaten their...
...Morgan's work--the result of a 12-year effort and a staff of hundreds--is a collection of essays by women in 70 countries worldwide. The contributers, who detail the status of women and the extent of feminist movements in their countries, range from longtime activists of established movements--like Simone de Beauvoir on the state of French feminism, and Amanda Sebestyen, a veteran of the British movement--to women who write under aliases to avoid persecution from their governments. "La Silenciada," (the Silenced One) writes of Cuba, and we hear from an "anonymous white South African feminist...
...vision of a better human order, not victory of a women but a victory or value that have been traditionally female nonaggression and interdependence, problem in all visionary feminist work that this one doesn't escape, is overestimating the adherence of today women to these historically held priorities. Morgan speaks of a "cross cultural opposition women express to war and our healthy skepticism of certain technological advances." This certainly true of the women who contributed to her book, but to put a women in this category is to neglect the Margaret Thatchers and Phyllis Schlaflys of the world who have...
WITH A DESCRIPTION of the British feminist nuclear movement at the Greenham Commons military base, Sebestyen touches upon a theme that pervades Sisterhood is Global. Much of the "world feminism" that Morgan has given expression to is directed toward overall societal reform. No single essay details the concern of women in a particular country to be solely in bettering their economic and political position. The book is not so much a clarion call for equal rights for women, but rather a blueprint for a myriad of social changes. In contribution after contribution, the activists express a need for greater attention...
...Morgan herself is on the radical left of the American feminist movement. She tells us in her introduction that her goal is "not only to change drastically our own powerless status worldwide, but redefine all existing social structures. Her sentiment, echoed over and over is perhaps best expressed by Mola Ogundipe-Leslie, a professor of English at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria: "It would seem that I am arguing that men are the enemy. No, men are not the enemy. The enemy is the total societal system, which is a jumble of neocolonial and feudalistic, even slave-holding, structures...