This book is a gift of hope for those who are in need of a different heaven and earth. A gift of hope for women struggling, women suffering, women yearning for justice. Barbel mirrors the fears and hopes of women from the first world but does so in a candid dialogue with our sister from the third world. She does not silence their criticism of Western feminists she refuses to think of liberation without that global sisterhood, and so she opens the eyes of middle class feminists for thinking globally and acting locally.