Transnational feminism
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Transnational Feminism is a contemporary paradigm. It is assumed that the name highlights the differnece between international and transnational conceptions of feminism, and favours the latter. As a feminist approach, it can be said that transnational feminism is generally attentive to intersections among nationhood, race, gender, sexuality and economic exploitation on a world scale, in the context of emergent global capitalism.
Transnational feminists inquire in to the social, political and economic conditions comprising imperialism; their connections to colonialism and nationalism; the role of gender, the state, race, class, and sexuality in the organization of dominant resistances of hegemonies in the making and unmaking of nation and 'other' bodies.
[edit] Literature
- Grewal, Inderpal and Caren Kaplan, eds. Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
- Jayawardena, Kumari. Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World. London: Zed Books, 1986.
- Kaplan, Caren, Norma Alarcon and Minoo Moallem, eds. Between Woman and Nation: Nationalism, Transnational Feminism, and the State. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.
- Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.
- Shohat, Ella, ed. Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999
