Local Activisms, Global Ferninisms and the BY

L 'auteure insiste sur le besoin depromouuoir chez toutes les militantes, les impkratifj de changement qui assurent la solidarite'j?ministe et elle ajoute que seuh les flminismes qui de?entlesyst?me dans son ensem blepeuuent attiser les inte'rtts communs desfemmespour un changement, assurer une base de solidarite'pour les femmes du Canada et d'ailleurs dans le monde quelle que soit la classe ou l'ethnie et enfin des fPminismes quipeuuentjouer un r5le dans le monde exaltant et multiforme desfemmes h l'echelle mondiale Feminist internationalism Feminism is necessarily an internationalist politics, for the systems ofexploitation and control we resist are global. In North America we understood right from the beginning of this phase of feminist activism that "No woman is free until all women are free." ' It is now becoming increasingly clear that the liberation of any community of women requires women's liberation in all communities. To win our full freedom, and not merely ameliorate women's conditions, we will have to transform global as well as national and local structures of power. Women's struggle has a long history in all regions of the world. In the current period feminists everywhere have discovered and reclaimed largely hidden histories ofwom-en's resistance. In the West we discovered Christine de Pisan from the fifteenth century, Mary Wollstonecraft from the eighteenth, and Sojourner Truth from the nineteenth. We learned that the suffragists were a mass movement Leadership at the OF militant and visionary women, i nternati anal not a tiny group of laughable mal-contents as we'd been told; that, in level has tended Canada women were recognized f 0 CO me fro m as people in law as late as 1920 only after a long struggle. Asian the economic feminists ~ o i n t o Buddha's de-SOU ^ h where batewith I;is followe;s in the sixth African feminists point to "the key role [of women] in traditional African Society... which still prevails in many African regions (e.g. in the Akan region, in the South-Eas