The Feminist Movement in the 20th Century - Charlotte Bunch (Essay Date 2001)
CHARLOTTE BUNCH (ESSAY DATE 2001)
SOURCE: Bunch, Charlotte. "Women's Human Rights: The Challenges of Global Feminism and Diversity." In Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice, edited by Marianne DeKoven, pp. 129-46. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
In the following essay, Bunch discusses some aspects of global feminism, including networking among organizations in various countries, the struggle for human rights, and the notion of equality in relation to diversity.
I want to start with a story from the first African Women's Leadership Institute that I attended in Uganda (February 1997) because it illustrates issues I want to discuss and conveys the sense of possibility that I feel about what I call global feminism. While the term global feminism is problematic, it still has resonance for many as a way of describing the growth of feminism(s) around the world...
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