Transnational Feminist Itineraries: Situating Theory And Activist Practice (Next Wave: New Directions In Women's Studies)

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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 feminisms 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 approachesespecially intersectional and decolonial feminismsthis 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 fundamentalismContributors Mary Bernstein Isabel Maria Corteso 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