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Editor Robin Morgan Language English Pages 815 Preceded by Sisterhood is Powerful Page count 815 Subject Second-wave feminism | 4.2/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date 1984 Originally published 1984 Followed by Sisterhood Is Forever ISBN 9780385177979 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardcover and paperback) Similar Sisterhood Is Forever, Sisterhood is Powerful, A Hot January, The Demon Lover, Saturday's Child | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology is a feminist anthology edited by Robin Morgan, published by Anchor Press/Doubleday in 1984. Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology is the follow up to Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From The Women's Liberation Movement. After Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology came its follow-up, Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium.
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Morgan was awarded Ford Foundation Grants in 1982, 1983, and 1984 to help fund work on Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology.
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Made up of short essays by women who represent more than 80 countries, Sisterhood Is Global "was hailed as 'an historic publishing event,' 'an instant classic,' and 'the definitive text on the international women's movement,' and adopted widely as a course text in women's studies, international affairs, global economics, and several other disciplines", as Morgan has acknowledged.
Among the women contributing essays are: Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran), Marjorie Agosin (Chile), Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana), Shulamit Aloni (Israel), Peggy Antrobus (Caribbean), Berit Ås (Norway), Simone de Beauvoir (France), Cheryl Benard (Austria), Motlalepula Chabaku (South Africa), Nguyen Thi Dinh (Vietnam), Lidia Falcon (Spain), Patricia Giles (Australia), Hema Goonatilake (Sri Lanka), Keiko Higuchi (Japan), Rada Iveković (Yugoslavia), Devaki Jain (India), Nell McCafferty (Ireland), Tatyana Mamonova (USSR), Fatima Mernissi (Morocco), Irmtraud Morgner (East Germany), 'Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (Nigeria), Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo (Portugal), Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt), Edit Schlaffer (Austria), Ngahuia Te Awekotuku (New Zealand), Ana Titkow (Poland), Mallica Vajrathon (Thailand), Sima Wali (Afghanistan), Marilyn Waring (New Zealand), and Xiao Lu (China).