While first world feminists focused "on the liberal agenda of political rights", Third World feminists "linked their agenda for women's rights with economic and cultural rights" and unified together "under the banner of Third World solidarity". Maylei Blackwell identifies that this internationalist critique of capitalism and imperialism forged by women of color has yet to be fully historicized and is "usually dropped out of the false historical narrative".
First-world feminists focused on political rights, while Third-world feminists linked their fight for women's rights to economic and cultural rights and united under the banner of solidarity among people of color. Maylei Blackwell highlights that this internationalist critique of capitalism and imperialism, created by women of color, has not been fully recognized in historical accounts.