# Sisterhood Is Global

Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology is a 1984 anthology of feminist writings edited by Robin Morgan, published by Anchor Press/Doubleday. It is the follow-up to Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement (1970). After Sisterhood Is Global came its follow-up, Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium (2003).

## Background

Robin Morgan was awarded Ford Foundation Grants in 1982, 1983, and 1984 to help fund work on Sisterhood Is Global.

## Contents

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.
Table of Contents :
| Country etc. | Title | Author(s) |
| Afghanistan | The Silent Victims | Sima Wali |
| Algeria | The Day-to-Day Struggle | Fatma Oussedik |
| Argentina | The Fire Cannot Be Extinguished | Leonor Calvera |
| Australia | Women in a Warrior Society | Sara Dowse, Patricia Giles |
| Austria | Benevolent Despotism Versus the Contemporary Feminist Movement | Cheryl Benard, Edit Schlaffer |
| Brazil | A Fertile but Ambiguous Feminist Terrain | Danda Prado |
| Britain | The Politics of Survival | Amanda Sebestyen |
| Canada | The Empowerment of Women | Greta Hofmann Nemiroff |
| Caribbean | The Dutch-Speaking Caribbean Islands: Fighting Until the End | Sonia M. Cuales |
| Caribbean | The English-Speaking Caribbean: A Journey in the Making | Peggy Antrobus, Lorna Gordon |
| Caribbean | The French-Speaking Caribbean: Haiti - A Vacation Paradise of Hell | Cacos La Gonaive |
| Caribbean | The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean: We Women Aren't Sheep | Magaly Pineda |
| Chile | Women of Smoke | Marjorie Agosin |
| China | Feudal Attitudes, Party Control, and Half the Sky | Xiao Lu |
| Colombia | Fighting for the Right to Fight | Luz Helena Sanchez |
| Cuba | Paradise Gained, Paradise Lost - The Price of "Integration" | La Silenciada |
| Denmark | Letter from a Troubled Copenhagen Redstocking | Tinne Vammen |
| Ecuador | Needed - A Revolution in Attitude | Carola Borja |
| Egypt | When a Woman Rebels | Nawal El Saadawi |
| El Salvador | "We Cannot Wait ..." | Collective statement by the Association of Salvadorian Women |
| Finland | The Right to Be Oneself | Hilkka Pietila |
| France | Feminism - Alive, Well, and in Constant Danger | Simone de Beauvoir |
| Germany (East) | Witch Vilmma's Invention of Speech-Swallowing (A Parable) | Irmtraud Morgner |
| Germany (West) | Fragmented Selves (A Collage) | Renate Berger, Ingrid Kolb, Marielouise Janssen-Jurreit |
| Ghana | To Be a Woman | Ama Ata Aidoo |
| Greece | A Village Sisterhood | Margaret Papandreou |
| Guatemala | Our Daily Bread | Stella Quan |
| Hungary | The Nonexistence of "Women's Emancipation" | Suzanne Körösi |
| India | A Condition Across Caste and Class | Devaki Jain |
| Indonesia | Multiple Roles and Double Burdens | Titi Sumbung |
| Iran | A Future in the Past - The "Prerevolutionary" Women's Movement | Mahnaz Afkhami |
| Ireland(s) | Coping with the Womb and the Border | Nell McCafferty |
| Israel | Up the Down Escalator | Shulamit Aloni |
| Italy | A Mortified Thirst for Living | Paola Zaccaria |
| Japan | The Sun and the Shadow | Keiko Higuchi |
| Kenya | Not Just Literacy, but Wisdom | Rose Adhiambo Arungu-Olende |
| Korea (South) | A Grandmother's Vision | Soon Chan Park |
| Kuwait | God's Will - and the Process of Socialization | Noura Al-Falah |
| Lebanon | The Harem Window | Rose Ghurayyib |
| Libya | The Wave of Consciousness Cannot Be Reversed | Farida Allaghi |
| Mexico | Pioneers and Promoters of Women | Carmen Lugo |
| Morocco | The Merchant's Daughter and the Son of the Sultan | Fatima Mernissi |
| Nepal | Women as a Caste | Manjula Giri |
| The Netherlands | In the Unions, the Parties, the Streets, and the Bedrooms | Corrine Oudijk |
| New Zealand | Foreigners in Our Own Land | Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Marilyn Waring |
| Nicaragua | To My Companeras on the Planet Earth | Maria Lourdes Centeno de Zelaya |
| Nigeria | Not Spinning on the Axis of Maleness | 'Molara Ogundipe-Leslie |
| Norway | More Power to Women! | Berit Ås |
| The Pacific Islands | All It Requires Is Ourselves | Vanessa Griffen |
| Pakistan | Women - A Fractured Profile | Miriam Habib |
| Palestine | Women and the Revolution | Fawzia Fawzia |
| Peru | "Not Even with a Rose Petal ..." | Ana Maria Portugal |
| Poland | "Let's Pull Down the Bastilles Before They Are Built" | Anna Titkow |
| Portugal | Daring to Be Different | Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo |
| Rumania | The "Right" to Be Persecuted | Elena Chiriac |
| Saudi Arabia | An Emerging Social Force | Aisha al-Mana |
| Senegal | Elegance Amid the Phallocracy | Marie-Angélique Savané |
| South Africa | Going Up the Mountain | Motlalepula Chabaku |
| South Africa | South Africa: A Bulletin from Within | Anonymous white South African feminists |
| Spain | Women Are the Conscience of Our Country | Lidia Falcón |
| Sri Lanka | The Voice of Women | Hema Goonatilake |
| Sudan | Women's Studies - and a New Village Stove | Amna Elsadik Badri |
| Sweden | Similarity, Singularity, and Sisterhood | Rita Liljeström |
| Thailand | We Superwomen Must Allow the Men to Grow Up | Mallica Vajrathon |
| The USSR | It's Time We Began with Ourselves | Tatyana Mamonova |
| The United Nations | "Good Grief, There Are Women Here!" | Claire de Hedervary |
| The United States | Honoring the Vision of "Changing Woman" | Rayna Green |
| Venezuela | For As Long As It Takes | Giovanna Merola R. |
| Vietnam | "The Braided Army" | Nguyen Thi Dinh |
| Yugoslavia | Neofeminism - and Its "Six Mortal Sins" | Rada Iveković, Slavenka Drakulić |

## Editions

* 1984, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday
* 1985, London: Penguin Books
* 1996, Feminist Press at The City University of New York, ISBN 978-1558611603

## In popular culture

In a 2019 Paris Fashion Week show, Christian Dior's creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri debuted a collection of T-shirts that read Sisterhood Is Powerful, Sisterhood Is Global, and Sisterhood Is Forever, respectively.