Transnational Feminist Itineraries: Situating Theory and Activist Practice - Paperback

by Ashwini Tambe (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

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.