The movement that began in the 1960s in the United States has gone through many
permutations, continuously emerging in new forms in different parts of the
world. Awareness of the issue of gender has reached international institutions
and has entered popular culture. Yet this worldwide phenomenon is made up of
individual movements, occurring within national boundaries and shaped by
distinct sets of circumstances. Mapping the Women's Movement charts the
development, diversification and politics of movements in the United States and
key countries in Western and Eastern Europe, as well as Japan, in order to draw
out their wider implications. It shows that feminist political action to change
institutions,