A five-dimensional model for change: contradictions and feminist consciousness

Abstract

This five-dimensional model for change is based on the assumption that an integrated international economy draws its profit from increasing non-paid and low-paid work everywhere. This means the increased exploitation of women and worsening conditions for the majority in almost all countries. As the idea of equality between nations, classes, races and sexes is accepted and the women's liberation movement develops, the gap between expectations and reality grows. The article describes five dialectic dimensions. Each includes a growing conflict between deteriorating conditions and expectations, reality and promises, despair and anger. Contradictions demand resolution. The author argues that this is why a world-wide uprising of women cannot be stopped.