The Women's Movement is usually referred to as if it were a
constant, global phenomenon. There are women's movements in Europe,
North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, India, Japan and
Australia, and many women and men assume that they are regional
manifestations of the same thing, and share a common core. Susan
Bassnett has lived and been involved in the struggles of the
women's movement in the United States, Italy and the United
Kingdom, and has had extensive contacts with feminists in the
German Democratic Republic. On the basis of her personal
experiences and study of women's history and literature in these
countries she is able to present a striking picture of the variety
of feminist aims, tactics and priorities in the four countries, and
of the character of the women's movement in four very different
cultures. In Italy, she focuses on the violence of the women's
movement - its intellectualism and energy. In analysing the
American women's movement she dwells on its roots in the past, and
its faith in pragmatic solutions. The GDR presents completely
different questions, hinging on the relationship between state
socialism and feminism. In the UK, Susan Bassnett finds herself
returning to that all-pervasive aspect of British life - class, and
its importance for feminists. Throughout, the author writes with a
double commitment: first, to furthering our understanding of the
diversity of aims of women's movements and their common ground -
the no-man's land of female existence; second, to making her book
as accessible as possible to all feminists, through drawing on her
own personal experience of countries in which she has lived,
worked, travelled, and made friends.
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