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When one lives a historical experience, it is only much later one can understand the broader significance of what happened. This has happened with feminism in Mexico, especially for those of us who acquired “a conscience of one’s own” when feminism spread in the 1970s. As we look back, we now have different interpretations of what we experienced because feminism has evolved and, with the wings of history, we ourselves have also changed. Who are we today: post-feminists or feminists with a new perspective? I believe we are feminists with a new perspective, because living in a democracy makes us shift strategies while keeping intact the original dream of having a room of our own, a conscience of our own, and a life that is worth living.
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This text was originally published in Spanish: Arizpe, Lourdes, 2002: “El Feminismo: del grito de los setenta a las estrategias del siglo XXI”, in: Gutiérrez Castañeda, Griselda (Ed.): El Feminismo en México. Revisión histórico-crítica del siglo que termina (Mexico City: UNAM—Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género): 63–70.
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Arizpe, L. (2014). Feminism: From the Outcry of the Seventies to the Strategies for the Twenty-First Century. In: Migration, Women and Social Development. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06572-4_6
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