Jessica Valenti Quotes About Country

• There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Numbers, Female

• Como indica el aumento de la mortalidad materna en 2010, ahora mismo es más peligroso dar a luz en California que en Kuwait o Bosnia. Amnistía Internacional informa de que las mujeres [de Estados Unidos] tienen más riesgo de morir por complicaciones del embarazo que las mujeres de otros cuarenta y nueve países (las mujeres negras tienen casi cuatro veces más probabilidades de morir que las blancas). Estados Unidos gasta más que ningún otro país en atención a la salud materna y, sin embargo, nuestro riesgo de morir o estar a punto de morir durante el embarazo o el parto sigue siendo excesivamente alto.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Pregnancy, White

• I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you hear American feminists talk about international feminism or women in other countries, it kind of goes along with this condescending point of view like we have to save the women of such-and-such country; we have to help them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Thinking, Views

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world. I think, though, for Western feminism and for American feminism, it not so surprisingly continues to center Western feminism and American feminism. And I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you hear American feminists talk about international feminism or women in other countries, it kind of goes along with this condescending point of view like we have to save the women of such-and-such country; we have to help them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Thinking, Feminist

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• I think that it's incredibly important that we're actually paying attention to the feminism that's going on on the ground in different countries and see what we can do to support the work that's already going on, as opposed to kind of assuming that we know best for women in other areas.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Thinking, Support

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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