Feminisms

1. What constitutes a women’s movement?

2. Why do many women’s movements around the world avoid the feminist label?

3. If  "feminism may be seen as a luxury when the majority of the people are hungry," then how and why do feminist (or women's) movements emerge in many developing countries? 

GN v. GS Feminisms (Burn,  p. 271)

·        GN may not apply to GS socioeconomic circumstances

·        Other GS struggles (race, poverty, imperialism) seen as equally important

·        Lack of trust by GS because of history and historical exclusion in IGOs

·        Motherhood is often central in GS feminisms

·        GS often rooted in pre-colonial past

·        Arab feminisms often rooted in Islam

·        GN viewed as possible effort to impose GN culture

·        Association with GN often hurts GS efforts