Transnational Feminism in the United States

The acceleration of economic globalization and the rapid

global flows of people, culture, and information have intensified the

importance of developing transnational understandings of contemporary issues.

Transnational feminist perspectives have provided a unique outlook on women’s

lives and have deepened our understanding of the gendered nature of global

processes. Transnational Feminism in the

United States examines how transnational perspectives shape the ways in

which we create and disseminate knowledge about the world within the United

States, and how the paradigm of transnational feminism is affected by national

narratives and public discourses within the country itself.

An innovative theoretical

project that is both deconstructive and constructive, this bookinterrogates the limits of feminist

thought, primarily through case

studies that illustrate its power to create new fields of research out of

traditionally interdisciplinary lines of inquiry. Leela Fernandes discusses

ways to approach, analyze, and capture processes that exceed and unsettle the

nation-state within the transnational feminist paradigm. Examining the links

between power and knowledge that bind interdisciplinary theory and research, she shines new light on issues such

as human rights as well as academic debates about transnational feminist

perspectives on global issues. A thought-provoking analysis, Transnational Feminism in the United States powerfully

contributes to the field of Women’s

Studies and related cross-disciplinary scholarship on feminist theory and

gender from a global perspective.