Re: Sisterhood Is Not Global (was Socialists Back Woman in Race to Lead France)
On Nov 18, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
This international gap among women creates a problem for proponents of transnational feminism, which is seldom noted in feminist literature: women tend to lean to the Left in richer nations (the modern gender gap of women leaning to the Left and men leaning to the Right more pronounced among younger generations in rich nations as well), but women tend to lean to the Right in poorer nations, including postcommunist societies. What feminists in richer nations want is often very different from what a majority of women in poorer nations want, at least for now, and probably for quite some time to come.
What are we to conclude from this? That we should just shrug and
accept that Third World women are more likely to lean right than
their Northern counterparts? Or should we think of it as a symptom of
maldevelopment, like high maternal mortality and rampant diarrhea?
Doug