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EARLY BIRD BOOKS FRESH EBOOK DEALS, DELIVERED DAILY BE THE FIRST TO KNOW— NEW DEALS HATCH EVERY DAY! Sisterhood Is Global The International Women’s Movement Anthology Robin Morgan RESEARCH DIRECTOR Jane Ordway Research and Copy for Statistical Prefaces Anne-Christine d’Adesky Toni Fitzpatrick Annette Fuentes Peggy Orenstein Erica Romaine Research Assistance Pamela Abrams Suzanna Fogel Kenneth Pitchford Laura Silver Nancy Zirinsky PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Karen Berry Computer Coordinator Fran Rosen Production Marcia Landsman Production Assistance Sedef Guman Amy Pellman Blake Morgan Pitchford Viv Sutherland Mary Washburn Anna Zeni Translators Magda Bogin Carol Carl-Sime Anne-Christine d’Adesky Cola Franzen Annette Fuentes Elisa Sierra Gutiérrez Sherif Hetata Lisa Kollisch Edite Kroll Agnes Liebhardt Grace Lyu Bobbye Ortiz Rebecca Park Akiko Tomii Gloria Feiman Waldman Interns: Joyce Chang, Nomi Itzhaik, Sandra Littell, Agnes Moses, Mercedes Suárez, Wendy Wolff, Donna Santos Yamashiro. Extended Family: Patricia Carbine, Christiane Deschamps, Michelle Djenderedjian, Joanne Edgar, Dexter Guerrieri, Judith Helzner, Sylvia Kramer, Edite Kroll, Suzanne Braun Levine, Susan McHenry, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Isel Rivero, Gloria Steinem, Ms. Magazine, The Women’s Action Alliance, and the International Women’s Tribune Center.* Mascots: Ida, Grey Kitty IV, Loki. * Also see Acknowledgments CONTENTS Preface to the Digital Edition Preface to the 1996 Edition Prefatory Note and Methodology Introduction: Planetary Feminism: The Politics of the 21st Century by Robin Morgan Afghanistan: Preface The Silent Victims by Sima Wall Algeria: Preface The Day-to-Day Struggle by Fatma Oussedik Argentina: Preface The Fire Cannot Be Extinguished by Leonor Calvera Australia: Preface Women in a Warrior Society by Sara Dowse and Patricia Giles Austria: Preface Benevolent Despotism Versus the Contemporary Feminist Movement by Cheryl Benard and Edit Schlaffer Brazil: Preface A Fertile but Ambiguous Feminist Terrain by Danda Prado Britain: Preface The Politics of Survival by Amanda Sebestyen Canada: Preface The Empowerment of Women by Greta Hofmann Nemiroff Caribbean: Preface The Dutch-Speaking Caribbean Islands: Fighting Until the End by Sonia M. Cuales The English-Speaking Caribbean: A Journey in the Making by Peggy Antrobus and Lorna Gordon The French-Speaking Caribbean: Haiti—A Vacation Paradise of Hell by Cacos La Gonaïve The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean: We Women Aren’t Sheep by Magaly Pineda Chile: Preface Women of Smoke by Marjorie Agosin China: Preface Feudal Attitudes, Party Control, and Half the Sky by Xiao Lu Colombia: Preface Fighting for the Right to Fight by Luz Helena Sánchez Cuba: Preface Paradise Gained, Paradise Lost—The Price of “Integration” by La Silenciada Denmark: Preface Letter from a Troubled Copenhagen Redstocking by Tinne Vammen Ecuador: Preface Needed—A Revolution in Attitude by Carola Borja Egypt: Preface When a Woman Rebels … by Nawal El Saadawi El Salvador: Preface “We Cannot Wait …” a collective statement by the Association of Salvadoran Women Finland: Preface The Right to Be Oneself by Hilkka Pietilä France: Preface Feminism—Alive, Well, and in Constant Danger by Simone de Beauvoir Germany (East): Preface Witch Vilmma’s Invention of Speech-Swallowing (A Parable) by Irmtraud Morgner Germany (West): Preface Fragmented Selves (A Collage) by Renate Berger, Ingrid Kolb, and Marielouise Janssen- Jurreit Ghana: Preface To Be a Woman by Ama Ata Aidoo Greece: Preface A Village Sisterhood by Margaret Papandreou Guatemala: Preface Our Daily Bread by Stella Quan Hungary: Preface The Nonexistence of “Women’s Emancipation” by Suzanne Körösi India: Preface A Condition Across Caste and Class by Devaki Jain Indonesia: Preface Multiple Roles and Double Burdens by Titi Sumbung Iran: Preface A Future in the Past—The “Prerevolutionary” Women’s Movement by Mahnaz Afkhami Ireland(s): Preface Coping with the Womb and the Border by Nell McCafferty Israel: Preface Up the Down Escalator by Shulamit Aloni Italy: Preface A Mortified Thirst for Living by Paola Zaccaria Japan: Preface The Sun and the Shadow by Keiko Higuchi Kenya: Preface Not Just Literacy, but Wisdom by Rose Adhiambo Arungu-Olende Korea (South): Preface A Grandmother’s Vision by Soon Chan Park Kuwait: Preface God’s Will—and the Process of Socialization by Noura AlFalah Lebanon: Preface The Harem Window by Rose Ghurayyib Libya: Preface The Wave of Consciousness Cannot Be Reversed by Farida Allaghi Mexico: Preface Pioneers and Promoters of Women by Carmen Lugo Morocco: Preface The Merchant’s Daughter and the Son of the Sultan by Fatima Mernissi Nepal: Preface Women as a Caste by Manjula Giri The Netherlands: Preface In the Unions, the Parties, the Streets, and the Bedrooms by Corrine Oudijk New Zealand: Preface Foreigners in Our Own Land by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku and Marilyn J. Waring Nicaragua: Preface To My Compañeras on the Planet Earth by Maria Lourdes Centeño de Zelaya Nigeria: Preface Not Spinning on the Axis of Maleness by ’Molara Ogundipe-Leslie Norway: Preface More Power to Women! by Berit Ås The Pacific Islands: Preface All It Requires Is Ourselves by Vanessa Griffen Pakistan: Preface Women—A Fractured Profile by Miriam Habib Palestine: Preface Women and the Revolution by Fawzia Fawzia Peru: Preface “Not Even with a Rose Petal …” by Ana Maria Portugal Poland: Preface “Let’s Pull Down the Bastilles Before They Are Built” by Anna Titkow Portugal: Preface Daring to Be Different by Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Rumania: Preface The “Right” to Be Persecuted by Elena Chiriac Saudi Arabia: Preface An Emerging Social Force by Aisha Almana Senegal: Preface Elegance Amid the Phallocracy by Marie-Angélique Savané South Africa: Preface Going Up the Mountain by Motlalepula Chabaku;South Africa: A Bulletin from Within by anonymous white South African feminists Spain: Preface Women Are the Conscience of Our Country by Lidia Falcón Sri Lanka: Preface The Voice of Women by Hema Goonatilake Sudan: Preface Women’s Studies—and a New Village Stove by Amna Elsadik Badri Sweden: Preface Similarity, Singularity, and Sisterhood by Rita Liljeström Thailand: Preface We Superwomen Must Allow the Men to Grow Up by Mallica Vajrathon The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Preface It’s Time We Began with Ourselves by Tatyana Mamonova The United Nations: Preface “Good Grief, There Are Women Here!” by Claire de Hedervary The United States: Preface Honoring the Vision of “Changing Woman” by Rayna Green Venezuela: Preface For As Long As It Takes by Giovanna Merola R. Vietnam: Preface “The Braided Army” by Nguyen Thi Dinh Yugoslavia: Preface Neofeminism—and Its “Six Mortal Sins” by Rada Ivekovićand Slavenka Drakulić-Ilić Zambia: Preface Feminist Progress—More Difficult Than Decolonization by Gwendoline Konie Zimbabwe: Preface It Can Only Be Handled by Women by Olivia N. Muchena Appendices: Cross-Cultural Rebellion—A Sampling of Feminist Proverbs “Sister” Glossary Bibliography Acknowledgments A Woman’s Creed Index About the Author PREFACE TO THE DIGITAL EDITION As Sisterhood Is Global transforms itself through various editions, translations, and formats, it demands new prefaces. In writing this one, to the ebook edition, I am both proud and grateful that this anthology not only continues to be pertinent, but also increases in relevance. First published in 1984, updated and reissued in 1996, and now available digitally in 2016, this “international feminist encyclopedia” persists in its timeliness. In the 1996 preface, I noted that despite geopolitical changes—South Africa freed from apartheid, Yugoslavia dissolved as a nation, the demise of the Soviet Union, etc.—the status of women in most places remained largely and dismally the same. That’s less true today. There’s still plenty of bad news, of course. We can count the proliferation of weapons and wars, rising waves of religious fundamentalisms—Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, even Buddhist—plus nonstate actors, ranging from ISIS to multinational megacorporations, controlling vast areas of international relations but answerable to no governments, organizations, treaties, codes of ethics, or citizenry. All of which impact most heavily on women. But there’s actually good news, too. Rates of poverty, disease, and overall illiteracy have declined. According to World Bank statistics, the proportion of the global population living in extreme poverty has fallen from 35 percent in 1993 to 14 percent in 2011, the latest year for which seasoned statistics are available. This is particularly heartening news for women, since the majority of the extreme poor (those surviving on less than $1.00 per day) is female. Although approximately six million children, the majority girls, still die before age five, that’s more than half the number who perished in 1990 (when over twelve million died). Although “custom,” economic pressures, and certain religious and family traditions still mitigate against girls getting an education—an opposition sometimes even taking the form of acid attacks and assassinations—nonetheless, 80 percent of girls in developing countries now complete elementary school (an increase from the 1980s when only half did so). Then there’s the most encouraging news of all. Although evangelical Christians, Islamists, the Vatican, and the ultra-Orthodox regularly unite in a misogynistic brotherhood to prevent women from gaining and keeping the basic human right of reproductive freedom, they are losing. The statistics show a crucial drop in birthrates. For instance, Indonesian women now average 2.3 children; Bangladeshi women 2.2; women in Haiti now average 3.1 kids, down from six in 1985. This is directly traceable to the influence of the global women’s movement. This one statistic, via its ripple effects, inspires realistic hope for educational opportunities, improvements in sanitation and health, economic development, better prognoses for civil society and peace, and, ultimately, a decline in environmental devastation and in stemming climate change.
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