The women with a real connection to feminism are the women who work, the women who study. It finds a propitious environment for growth in university classrooms, which attract more and more Peruvian women, and in the trade unions, where women from the factories join and organize themselves with the same rights and duties as the men. Apart from this spontaneous and organic feminism, which recruits its adherents among the different categories of women's work, there exists here, as elsewhere, a feminism of dilettantes, some a bit pedantic, others a bit mundane. Feminists of this type turn feminism into a simple literary exercise, a mere fashionable sport. No one should be surprised that all women do not unite in a single feminist movement.
Feminism necessarily has various shades and diverse tendencies.
Each of these feminisms formulates its demands in a distinctive manner. The bourgeois woman, as a feminist, solidarizes with the interests of the conservative class. The working-class woman combines her feminism with the faith of the revolutionary multitudes in the future society. Women, like men, are reactionaries, centrists, or revolutionaries. They consequently cannot fight the same battle together.