Transnational Feminist Itineraries brings together scholars and activists from multiple continents to demonstrate the ongoing importance of transnational feminist theory in challenging neoliberal globalization and the rise of authoritarian nationalisms around the world. The contributors illuminate transnational feminism's unique constellation of elements: its specific mode of thinking across scales, its historical understanding of identity categories, and its expansive imagining of solidarity based on difference rather than similarity. Contesting the idea that transnational feminism works in opposition to other approaches-especially intersectional and decolonial feminisms-this volume instead argues for their complementarity. Throughout, the contributors call for reaching across social, ideological, and geographical boundaries to better confront the growing reach of nationalism, authoritarianism, and religious and economic fundamentalism.
Contributors. Mary Bernstein, Isabel Maria Cortesao Casimiro, Rafael de la Dehesa, Carmen L. Diaz Alba, Inderpal Grewal, Cricket Keating, Amy Lind, Laura L. Lovett, Kathryn Moeller, Nancy A. Naples, Jennifer C. Nash, Amrita Pande, Srila Roy, Cara K. Snyder, Ashwini Tambe, Millie Thayer, Catarina Casimiro Trindade
Edited by:
Ashwini Tambe,
Millie Thayer
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9781478014430
ISBN 10: 1478014431
Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 13 August 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Editors' Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Ashwini Tambe and Millie Thayer 1 Part I. Provocations 1. The Many Destinations of Transnational Feminism / Ashwini Tambe and Millie Thayer 13 2. Beyond Antagonism: Rethinking Intersectionality, Transnationalism, and the Women's Studies Academic Job Market / Jennifer C. Nash 37 3. Rethinking Patriarchy and Corruption: Itineraries of US Academic Feminism and Transnational Analysis / Inderpal Grewal 52 Part II. Scale 4. Transnational Feminism and the Politics of Scale: The 2012 Antirape Protests in Dehli / Srila Roy 71 5. Transnational Shifts: The World March of Women in Mexico / Carmen L. Díaz Alba 86 6. Network Ecologies and the Feminist Politics of ""Mass Sterilization"" in Brazil / Rafael de la Dehesa 101 Part III. Interrogating Corporate Power 7. Transnational Childhoods: Linking Global Production, Local Consumption, and Feminist Resistance / Laura L. Lovett 121 8. Nike's Search for Third World Potential: The Tensions between Corporate Funding and Feminist Futures / Kathryn Moeller 133 Part IV. Intractable Dilemmas 9. Reproductive Justice and the Contradictions of International Surrogacy Claims by Gay Men in Australia / Nancy A. Naples and Mary Bernstein 151 10. Wombs in India: Revisiting Commercial Surrogacy / Amrita Pande 171 Part V. Nationalisms and Plurinationalisms 11. Sporting Transnational Feminisms: Gender, Nation, and Women's Athletic Migrations between Brazil and the United States / Cara K. Snyder 193 12. Mozambican Feminisms: Between the Local and the Global / Isabel Maria Cortesão Casimiro and Catarina Casimiro Trindade 207 13. Plural Sovereignty and la Familia Diversa in Ecuador's 2008 Constitution / Christine ""Cricket"" Keating and Amy Lind 222 References 239 Contributors 269 Index 275
Ashwini Tambe is Professor and Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at George Washington University, and author of Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws. Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and author of Making Transnational Feminism: Rural Women, NGO Activists, and Northern Donors in Brazil.
Reviews for Transnational Feminist Itineraries: Situating Theory and Activist Practice
This thoughtful and measured volume carefully addresses long-standing tensions in feminist theorizing and activism between transnational practices and intersectionality in new and stimulating ways, identifying the many congruent avenues of inquiry and methodologies they share. Bringing together perspectives from the United States and the Global South, it provides a robust critique of the legacies of racism and colonialism. -- Caren Kaplan, author of * Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above * This innovative collection charts clear paths toward a renewed and reinvigorated transnational feminist theory and practice, offering fresh empirical materials and indispensable theoretical tools for navigating today's turbulent global political waters. Adjudicating the manifest tensions among postcolonial, decolonial, intersectional, and transnational approaches in provocative yet generative ways, the volume amply demonstrates why and how transnational feminism as an analytic and as an intellectual-political project must be brought back front and center in a feminist studies suitable for the mid-twenty-first century and beyond. -- Sonia E. Alvarez, Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics and Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst Transnational Feminist Itineraries provides in-depth analyses of how borders, whether geographical or ideological, do not need to be barriers to collaborative action. -- Curtis J. Jewell * Community Literacy Journal *
