Working-Class Feminism

The history of women, like that of other oppressed groups, has been hidden from us only now to be recovered painstakingly, bit by bit, as the result of the pressure of a social movement. Much of the history of working class, poor, and peasant women is not only buried but lost forever, never having been written down in official documents, diaries, or novels. We will never know very much about the dreams, the struggles, the details of daily life of ordinary women who have gone before us. But the same mistake need not be made about the present. The lives of ordinary women, particularly those that intersect with the popular movements of our time, can be recorded for future generations to come. Domitila's life story, as told to Moema Viezzer, a Brazilian journalist and anthropologist, is a rich and fascinating contribution to the growing collection of books, tapes, and films about the lives of working-class women organizers. But it is much more than that. It is explicitly conceived as a tool for political organizing. Domitila tells her story as the wife of a Bolivian tin miner, a leader of the Housewives Committee, and member of the mining community of Siglo XX so that

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