Chapter 24 Accelerating Global Interaction (pg. 734-739)

The Globalization of Liberation: Comparing Feminist Movements. During the 20th century, the idea of liberation traveled around the world. In the 1960s, there was a protest movement around the world that suggested a new global culture of liberation in the United States. This included civil rights, youthful counterculture, and antiwar protests in Europe. These protests in Europe consisted of protests against unresponsive bureaucracy, consumerism, and middle-class values. In the communist world, there was an attempt to give socialism a human face in the Czechoslovakia  movement which was crushed by the Soviet Union. Furthermore, in China the Cultural Revolution development was the idea of a third world dream of offering an alternative to both capitalism and communism; cultural renewal third world ideology exemplified by Che Guevara. This was an effort to replicate the liberation of the Cuban revolution through guerrilla warfare in Africa and Latin America among all the liberation movements, feminism had the most profound potential for change rethinking of basic relationships between men and women began in the West in the 19th century.