ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the concept of global sisterhood from a different vantage point and focuses on global feminism have noted the disproportionate power and the misperceptions of white middle- to upper-class women from the "West" in shaping these international alliances. It examines how "Third World" women, both those from the global South as well as racialized women in the United States (US) fostered and deployed female internationalism during the "long" decade of the 1960s. The political efforts of women from Southeast Asia resonated deeply with women of Asian ancestry in the US. The chapter analyzes the efforts of Asian and Asian American women in fostering global sisterhood. In contrast to the relative invisibility and marginalization of Asian American women in movement circles, Vietnamese women occupied a hypervisible role as revolutionary leaders. Largely invisible within social movement circles in the US, they were able to find political role models through the hypervisibility of Vietnamese peasant women.
