In “Globalization and Political Change in the Women’s Movement: The Politics of Scale and Political Empowerment in the World March of Women” (my stress) by Dufour and Giraud in the Social Science Quarterly for Dec2007, we are told
The WMW is a transnational collective action that integrates women from grassroots organizations, labor unions, and leftist political parties in over 150 countries (approximately 6,000 groups) into a process of transnationalization of solidarities.
The article is about the European presence and tactics of the WMW.
Going on my own lack of knowledge, I could be worried that a very great deal of news about women’s important political actions world-wide are left unmentioned in the US and English press. In this particular case, the web presence of the WMW is also not much, a fairly quick look on google indicates. Still less is there much recent.
The WMW movement appears to have originated in Quebec and there is a big Canadian site. I did find a WMW blog from Pakistan, which also mentioned WMW protests in India over the action in Pakistan; a blog from Ecuador has a letter from the International Secretariat of the WMW, and so on.
What I am wondering is whether it is right to suspect a general lack of knowledge among some groups of feminists about such international movements. If so, are these largely English-speaking feminists? Is the language or the press creating an insularity? Is there a kind of passive censorship, with international feminists movements being of so little interest to the media that we never read about them?
Another possibility, I suppose, given the seeming lack of web presence, is that the movement lacks some of the resources to create a more formal media presence.
If the insularity is largely mine alone, I’m be happier about the situation!
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