The Globalization of Liberation: Comparing Feminist Movements

Chapter 24 talks about people witnessing the protest movements around the world, suggesting the emerge of global culture of liberation in the 1960’s. In the developing countries, substantial number of political leaders, activists, scholars, and students developed the notion of a “Third World.” They claimed to pioneer new forms of economic development, of grassroots democracy, and of cultural renewal. No expression of the global culture of liberation held a more profound potential for change than feminism. In the west, organized feminism had lost momentum by the end of the 1920’s, when most countries had achieved universal suffrage. Feminism in the South was not to different from the West females were known as “other.” The most impressive achievement of feminism in the twentieth century was its ability to project the “women’s rights are human rights.”