WGST 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter Critical Terrain Readings, pages 31-37: Living Wage, Antifeminism, Rebecca Walker
3 Feb 2018
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1990s, 90% of the world"s nations elected women to national office. Women as heads of state in more than 20 countries. Grassroots organizations: women in law and development in africa, the national black women"s health project in the united states, self-employed women"s association in india. Page | 1 alongside capitalism extended privileges to men only. Feminist movements named these disparities as unjust. Insisting on the value of women"s economic contributions and the justice of polit- ical rights for women. Feminist politics originated where capitalism, industrial growth, democratic the- ory, and socialist critiques converged (europe and north america after 1800). Only some concentrate solely on women, while others recognize complex links of the politics of race, class, religion and nationality. Global economic and political justice are prerequisites to securing women"s rights. They believed that middle-class demands for suffrage and property rights did not necessarily speak to working women"s needs for a living wage and job security.
