ABSTRACT
Social movements move. They are coordinated activities, not things, so attempts to define women's movements need to focus on the work they do, the purposive human activities specifically aiming to transform the gender relations that subordinate and devalue women. This activity is feminist work; it is done especially but not exclusively by women, and will thus generally be found in women's movements, groups organised and led by women. But as the research in previous chapters indicates, feminist transformation is better defined by its purpose than its form; feminism is more about the work of change-making than the particular structures in which this work is done. Nonetheless, these institutional venues vary in interesting and important ways. Indeed, the intention of achieving gender relations that support autonomy and equality for all women means that feminist activities will be joined in movement practices to other kinds of work for social justice, in varying degrees at diverse moments.
