Sisterhood Is Global

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Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology
Sisterhood is Global.jpg
Cover of the first edition
EditorRobin Morgan
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSecond-wave feminism
Publication date
1984
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages815
ISBN9780385177979
Preceded bySisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement (1970) 
Followed bySisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium (2003) 

Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology is a 1984 anthology of feminist writings edited by Robin Morgan, published by Anchor Press/Doubleday.[1][2] It is the follow-up to Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement (1970).[3] After Sisterhood Is Global came its follow-up, Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium (2003).[3]

Background[]

Robin Morgan was awarded Ford Foundation Grants in 1982, 1983, and 1984 to help fund work on Sisterhood Is Global.[4]

Contents[]

Made up of short essays by women[5] who represent more than 80 countries, Sisterhood Is Global "was hailed as 'an historic publishing event,' 'an instant classic,' and 'the definitive text on the international women's movement,' and adopted widely as a course text in women's studies, international affairs, global economics, and several other disciplines", as Morgan has acknowledged.[6]

Table of Contents[7]
Country etc. Title Author(s)
 Afghanistan The Silent Victims Sima Wali
 Algeria The Day-to-Day Struggle
 Argentina The Fire Cannot Be Extinguished
 Australia Women in a Warrior Society Sara Dowse, Patricia Giles
 Austria Benevolent Despotism Versus the Contemporary Feminist Movement Cheryl Benard, Edit Schlaffer
 Brazil A Fertile but Ambiguous Feminist Terrain
 Britain The Politics of Survival
 Canada The Empowerment of Women
 Caribbean The Dutch-Speaking Caribbean Islands: Fighting Until the End Sonia M. Cuales
The English-Speaking Caribbean: A Journey in the Making Peggy Antrobus,
The French-Speaking Caribbean: Haiti - A Vacation Paradise of Hell
The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean: We Women Aren't Sheep
 Chile Women of Smoke Marjorie Agosin
 China Feudal Attitudes, Party Control, and Half the Sky Xiao Lu
 Colombia Fighting for the Right to Fight
 Cuba Paradise Gained, Paradise Lost - The Price of "Integration"
 Denmark Letter from a Troubled Copenhagen Redstocking
 Ecuador Needed - A Revolution in Attitude
 Egypt When a Woman Rebels Nawal El Saadawi
 El Salvador "We Cannot Wait ..." Collective statement by the Association of Salvadorian Women
 Finland The Right to Be Oneself
 France Feminism - Alive, Well, and in Constant Danger Simone de Beauvoir
 Germany (East) Witch Vilmma's Invention of Speech-Swallowing (A Parable) Irmtraud Morgner
 Germany (West) Fragmented Selves (A Collage) , ,
 Ghana To Be a Woman Ama Ata Aidoo
 Greece A Village Sisterhood
 Guatemala Our Daily Bread
 Hungary The Nonexistence of "Women's Emancipation"
 India A Condition Across Caste and Class Devaki Jain
 Indonesia Multiple Roles and Double Burdens
 Iran A Future in the Past - The "Prerevolutionary" Women's Movement Mahnaz Afkhami
 Ireland(s) Coping with the Womb and the Border Nell McCafferty
 Israel Up the Down Escalator Shulamit Aloni
 Italy A Mortified Thirst for Living
 Japan The Sun and the Shadow Keiko Higuchi
 Kenya Not Just Literacy, but Wisdom
 Korea (South) A Grandmother's Vision
 Kuwait God's Will - and the Process of Socialization
 Lebanon The Harem Window Rose Ghurayyib
 Libya The Wave of Consciousness Cannot Be Reversed
 Mexico Pioneers and Promoters of Women
 Morocco The Merchant's Daughter and the Son of the Sultan Fatima Mernissi
   Nepal Women as a Caste
 The Netherlands In the Unions, the Parties, the Streets, and the Bedrooms
 New Zealand Foreigners in Our Own Land Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Marilyn Waring
 Nicaragua To My Companeras on the Planet Earth
 Nigeria Not Spinning on the Axis of Maleness 'Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
 Norway More Power to Women! Berit Ås
 The Pacific Islands All It Requires Is Ourselves Vanessa Griffen
 Pakistan Women - A Fractured Profile
 Palestine Women and the Revolution
 Peru "Not Even with a Rose Petal ..."
 Poland "Let's Pull Down the Bastilles Before They Are Built"
 Portugal Daring to Be Different Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo
 Rumania The "Right" to Be Persecuted
 Saudi Arabia An Emerging Social Force Aisha al-Mana
 Senegal Elegance Amid the Phallocracy Marie-Angélique Savané
 South Africa Going Up the Mountain Motlalepula Chabaku
South Africa: A Bulletin from Within Anonymous white South African feminists
 Spain Women Are the Conscience of Our Country Lidia Falcón
 Sri Lanka The Voice of Women
 Sudan Women's Studies - and a New Village Stove Amna Elsadik Badri
 Sweden Similarity, Singularity, and Sisterhood
 Thailand We Superwomen Must Allow the Men to Grow Up Mallica Vajrathon
 The USSR It's Time We Began with Ourselves Tatyana Mamonova
 The United Nations "Good Grief, There Are Women Here!"
 The United States Honoring the Vision of "Changing Woman"
 Venezuela For As Long As It Takes
 Vietnam "The Braided Army" Nguyen Thi Dinh
 Yugoslavia Neofeminism - and Its "Six Mortal Sins" Rada Iveković, Slavenka Drakulić

Editions[]

  • 1984, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday
  • 1985, London: Penguin Books
  • 1996, Feminist Press at The City University of New York, ISBN 978-1558611603

In popular culture[]

In a 2019 Paris Fashion Week show, Christian Dior's creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri debuted a collection of T-shirts that read Sisterhood Is Powerful, Sisterhood Is Global, and Sisterhood Is Forever, respectively.[8][9]

References[]

  1. ^ Robin Morgan (Editor) Author. "9780385177979: Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology - AbeBooks: 0385177976". AbeBooks. Retrieved October 15, 2015. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ "Table of Contents: Sisterhood is global :". Catalog.vsc.edu. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
  3. ^ a b "BOOKS | An Interview With Robin Morgan". Hybridmagazine.Com. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
  4. ^ "Bio". RobinMorgan.com. Archived from the original on February 20, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
  5. ^ Elizabeth Wilson, Review of Sisterhood Is Global, in Signs (University of Chicago Press), Vol. 11, No. 2 (Winter 1986), pp. 390–392.
  6. ^ Robin Morgan, Foreword to The Feminist Press edition, Sisterhood Is Global. Feminist.com.
  7. ^ "Table of Contents", Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology. Amazon.
  8. ^ Conlon, Scarlett (February 26, 2019). "Christian Dior launches latest 'sisterhood' slogans". The Guardian. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
  9. ^ Robinson, Roxanne; Schmidt, Ingrid (February 27, 2019). "Paris Fashion Week: Dior's Latest Feminist Message, Saint Laurent Channels Bianca Jagger". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 1, 2019.

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