ABSTRACT
In Latin American and Southeast Asia, as well as Europe and North America, an increasing number of women say they prefer active engagement in the paid workforce to bearing and rearing children. Purely Eurocentric, bourgeois, heterosexual feminism seems archaic, a matter for historians to discuss and for women and other marginalized segments of the world population to move beyond. Global feminism stresses the links between the various kinds of oppression women experience throughout the world. Closely related to global feminism, postcolonial feminism harkens back to the era when developed countries sought to colonize developing countries for their own purposes, such as extracting nonrenewable resources like oil for their own use. As Robin Morgan, whom we can view as either a global, postcolonial, or transnational feminist, noted, 'Women are the world's proletariat'. Chandra Talpade Mohanty wrote specifically that Western feminism tends to use language to colonize the material and historical heterogeneities of the lives of women in developing countries.
