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Book SynopsisTransnational Feminist Itineraries demonstrates the key contributions of transnational feminist theory and practice to analyzing and contesting authoritarian nationalism and the extension of global corporate power.
Trade Review“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
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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 *
"This is an important scholarly project and this collection makes a significant contribution in having such studies interface with the analytic tradition of transnational feminism. . . . Assembling this fine collection of studies will move the conversation forward." -- Janet M. Conway * Gender & Society *
"This is a volume for academics immersed in the politics of liberation. It offers much food for thought through its reach into diverse spaces, related actors, and their mutual impact. Transnational Feminist Itineraries is recommended for those in the behavioral sciences, gender studies, and as a tool for faculty mentoring dissertation students interested in the overarching topics addressed here." -- Yoly Zentella * Journal of Global South Studies *
Table of ContentsEditors' 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
