ABSTRACT
Women's collective activities are taken to constitute part of the women's struggle everywhere. The use of the actor-systems theoretical framework provides the possibility to perceive women's groups in the wider context of women's struggle. An understanding of women's groups, their actions, interaction and forms of struggle or resistance, will therefore enhance the general understanding of the dynamics of women's struggle and the major forces involved. This chapter has looked at women's groups as actors within a social system where women are subordinated. The sexual division of labour within the capitalist system is a major factor in the contemporary process of women's subordination. From the perspective of the actor-systems dynamics framework, subordination of women in its various dimensions is considered to constitute the situational reality within which women's groups operate.
