'Work locally but think globally': The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s.

This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called 'Third World' and other international organisati...

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Publicado en:Gender & History Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 390 - 406
Autor principal: Toscano, Bruno Walter Renato
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2026
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