Making Global Connections Among Women, 1970–90

Abstract

The two decades from 1970 to 1990 were the most dynamic in the history of international women’s movements. More women than ever before organized at the international level and in the context of global issues such as the debt crisis, prostitution and the international sexual division of labour. The international groups established during the earlier periods continued their work, using their status within the United Nations to work for alternative spaces for women within that system. Many of the new groups defined themselves as feminist and worked outside the existing international system. Their goals were to bring women together to share information, resources and strategies and as a result to create alternative spaces for women at the global level outside the United Nations framework.