The emergence of diverse women's movements and approaches to scholarship on women onto the world stage is challenging the idea of a global sisterhood led by Western women who assume their solutions can be applied everywhere. This idea has been rejected by women who don't share 'Western' cultural values. Analysing women's movements and scholarship on women within a one-world framework requires that we question old assumptions, the key ones being that women share the same experiences and needs in a generally presumed 'global sisterhood', based on stand-alone feminism organized only around gender justice.