men, and to begin to women.
at the impact of imwomen in the Third equality, as guaranteed in ation, means little under the and O1 DOverLy, THilclacy, ence for the vast bulk of.
popular myth imperialism ive a civiline intuence on I culture of people in these orces religious hierarchies to stabilise Its y of the most barbaric anti›asee on tengious coacs. in of millions of women is the caste sanctioned law cine , as we have seen recently in veiling women n nem rom Duoic ure and dividuality. Divorce is still in Catholic countries such Tare and nst women is exacerbated Women domination. xual crannicanon orune ley also face the reaction of husbands and lovers if they lic life. Old prejudices and they face beatings. they step out of line.
Educational opportunities for women are extremely limited. The system reinforces the 11122e of women onto all female children. Co-education is less prevalent than in Western societies. small number or women nave ocen take advantage of the benefits education in these countries.
Control over fertility is a long way off throughout the world. In the underdeveloped world women are pressurca Birth control information is almost always in the framework of racist population control rogrammes imposca by nocrialisi Forced sterilisation has been carried out on one-third of Puerto Rican women.
Women in these countries have been widely used as unwitting guinea testing biren control devices and arugs pill was tested out on vears before it was used in Europe. Access to anortion is also nee to coercion not treedom of choice. Every forced to seek illegal abortions most degrading conamons possible, leading to an unknown number of deaths.
Western capitalism foists standaras of colonial Women are conform to these alien standards while at the Having LO SULICE double standards. The sexual mutilation of female children and the custom of polygamy one nusoard, several wives are Only me most extreme examples of the general view of women that they exist gratification, not for their own Because women's position intimately bound imperialist exploitation it is separate the fight for women's demands from national liberation struggle Vietnam, Algeria, Cuba, Africa and Zimbabwe women have taken up arms against imperialism and then begun to raise their own demands within that struggle.
leading the battle for political status Republican prisoners both inside and outside all, The women's liberation movement has given these struggles a broader dimension. It nas soured women to nse uo ana place unel needs and concerns at the cerfere of every struggle. The gap between archaic norms and varues did the ever yudy lives or women grows ever wider. Women of the Third World have so little to lose that once they begin the battle a social ferment is unleashed that capitalist ines enticulo control. into the anelores aramnstores took Tebhaga crop. Terrified landlords called in police and over 50 peasants were l ed by police bullets their land peasants took over.
Sault Comma village administraton. troops were formed to put the cor HELECCO People's courts were set up Bengal, sharecropping peasants rose up landiords. These peasants cultivated the land with their own cattle, implements and got half the the landlord more than half the landlord's houses for nothing
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