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Charlotte Bunch (1944
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Bunch, Charlotte (1944- )
WRITER,
FEMINIST,
ACTIVIST
Charlotte
Bunch, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global
Leadership, has been an activist, author and organizer in women's and human
rights movements for over three decades. Before her work at the Global Center,
Bunch was a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, and a founder of D.C.
Women's Liberation and of Quest: A Feminist Quarterly. She has written
numerous articles, edited or co-edited nine anthologies including the Center's
reports on the UN Beijing Plus 5 Review process in 2000 and the World Conference
Against Racism in 2001. She has authored one collection of her work, Passionate
Politics: Feminist Theory in Action, and co-authored Demanding
Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women's Human Rights.
Bunch's contributions to conceptualizing and organizing for women's human rights
have been recognized by many and include: her induction into the National
Women's Hall of Fame in October 1996; President Clinton's selection of Bunch
as a recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights in December 1999;
her receipt of the "Women Who Make a Difference Award" from the National
Council for Research on Women in 2000; and being honored as one of the
"21 Leaders for the 21st Century" by Women's
Enews in 2002. She has served on the boards of numerous organizations and is
currently a member of the Advisory Committee for the Human
Rights Watch Women's Rights Division, on the Board of the International
Council on Human Rights Policy, a member of the Advisory Council for the Ethical
Globalization Initiative, and has served as a consultant to numerous groups,
including a number of United Nations bodies. Bunch is a Distinguished Professor
in the Women's
and Gender Studies Department at Rutgers University.
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Excerpt:
A pioneering strategist and organizer, Charlotte
Bunch is one of the foremost advocates of international attention
to women's issues, and the inclusion of gender and sexual
orientation on global human rights agenda.
A 1966 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Duke
University, Bunch became active on the national scene as a writer,
lesbian activist and lecturer, particularly in movements for
women's liberation and women's rights. She created and edited Quest:
A Feminist Journal (1974), one of the first and the leading
journals to promote analysis and policy making to improve women's
status in society.
Expanding her activities into the international
arena, Bunch built an international network of women, united by
common concerns, and prepared by education and training for
effective action. Through her speeches and organizing at
international conferences, she served as a critical catalyst for
action on women's issues. For example, her speech to Amnesty
International in 1989 marked the beginning of that organization's
efforts to address gender-specific human rights issues. Her
leadership was crucial to the adoption by the 1993 U.N. Conference
on Human Rights, in Vienna, of strong support for women, and at
the 1995 U.N. Conference on Human Rights, in Beijing, for
supporting woman's place in human rights advocacy...
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By Charlotte Bunch
Excerpt:
The development of Lesbian-feminist politics as
the basis for the liberation of women is our top priority; this
article outlines our present ideas. In our society which
defines all people and institutions for the benefit of the rich,
white male, the Lesbian is in revolt. In revolt because she
defines herself in terms of women and rejects the male definitions
of how she should feel, act, look, and live. To be a Lesbian
is to love oneself, woman, in a culture that denegrates and
despises women. The Lesbian rejects male sexual/political
domination; she defies his world, his social organization, his
ideology, and his definition of her as inferior. Lesbianism
puts women first while the society declares the male supreme.
Lesbianism threatens male supremacy at its core. When
politically conscious and organized, it is central to destroying
our sexist, racist, capitalist, imperialist system...
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