ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses on research for the first book-length study of the Mexico city conference. It is important to remember that the Mexico city conference and tribune were sui generis. The Mexico city conference and, perhaps as importantly, the buzz surrounding it, left important legacies for the burgeoning transnational women's movement. Most immediately, International Women's Year (IWY), both the year and the conference, fostered enduring structures. Another significant legacy of the Mexico City conference and, more emphatically, the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) tribune, was the greater recognition given to the importance of diverse perspectives. One of the items of unfinished business from 1975 is the need to think more intentionally about what we want this diversity to achieve. The activities in Mexico city, of having a full-scale NGO tribune with a daily newspaper, of creating avenues by which activists and policymakers could exchange views, of carving out space for deep policy discussions across ideological and cultural divides.
