Full Description
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 CortesÃo 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
Contents
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
