Charlotte Bunch
Charlotte Bunch
Charlotte Bunchis an American activist, author and organizer in women's rights and human rights movements. Bunch is currently the founding director and senior scholar at the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is also a distinguished professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth13 October 1944
CountryUnited States of America
answers needs action
We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.
demands larger less modest state today women
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.
call contrary ensure serious spirit stop success time urgency wanting wasting
We need to see a lot more than these 'concessions' from the US if they are serious about wanting to ensure the success of the Summit. Contrary to their claims, they are not negotiating with urgency and in a spirit of compromise. Women's organizations call on the US to stop wasting time of governments and the UN.
issues political politics
There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.
equality rights government
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
mean practice issues
The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just as is anti-Semitism, Palestinian homelessness, rural development, ecology, the persecution of lesbians, and the exploitative practices of global corporations.
government ideas issues
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
people care
People learn to lead because they care about something.
thinking ideas light
The full implications of feminism will evolve over time, as we organize, experiment, think, analyze, and revise our ideas and strategies in light of our experiences. No theory emerges in full detail overnight; the dominant theories of our day have expanded and changed over many decades. That it will take time should not discourage us. That we might fail to pursue our ideas - given the enormous need for them in society today - is unconscionable.
voice stories treasure
You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either passive or violent but instead act firmly and imaginatively to oppose oppression in its many guises. A wonderful tonic for activists and a treasure for those who teach, these stories bring women's history to life.
eye men views
We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It's also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women's view, any more than there is a single men's view.
issues
There is no issue that is not a women's issue.
leader vision needs
We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.
years leader style
Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.