Abstract for Discussion Leading 3/29

Shanay Cogdell
WST 3015
Professor Nina Perez
March 27, 2010

Antrobus, Peggy. "The Global Women's Movement." Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. Ed. Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 629-35. Print.

In the beginning of the passage, Antrobus defines what the global women’s movement is and various views on what it actually is. She begins the passage by asking a few questions concerning what it is and how we can understand such a movement. Antrobus states, “It seems to me that the continuing confusion about what defines women’s movements relates not so much to the fact that this movement does not conform to a conventional definition of a movement, but rather to lack of clarity about objectives in contexts that differ widely” (629).She then lists various ways of clarifying the contradictions reinforcing tendencies within the women’s movements and lists an array of professions, organizations and associations that women are apart of and argues that, ‘’All of these women must be seen as apart of, or at least contributing to, women’s movements” (630).

Antrobus lists various characteristics that fall under the scope of a women’s global movement such as diversity, feminist policies, global reach methods of organizing, symbols and images and origins. Antrobus states, “A characteristic of many of those involved in women’s movements is the process of personal experiences; still others work experience” (635). She also argues that there is a difference from other social movements that sets the women’s global movement apart from the rest.