Gender equality

“Global” feminism - Transnational feminism, transcultural feminism, postcolonial feminism

Transnational feminism is generally attentive to intersections among nationhood, race, gender, sexuality and economic exploitation on a world scale, in the context of emergent global capitalism.

Transnational feminists inquire into the social, political and economic conditions comprising imperialism; their connections to colonialism and nationalism; the role of gender, the state, race, class, and sexuality in the organization of resistance to hegemonies in the making and unmaking of nations and nation-states. It resists utopic ideas about "global sisterhood" while simultaneously working to lay the groundwork for more productive and equitable social relations among women across borders and cultural contexts.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Chandra Talpade Mohanty (born 1955) is a postcolonial and transnational feminist theorist. As of 2013, she has served as the women's studies department chair and professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Sociology, and the Cultural Foundations of Education and Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. She was born and raised in India, she has spent time in Nigeria and London. In 2005, she became a US citizen. She became well known after the publication of her 1984 essay, "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses".

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www.goodreads.com - Chandra Talpade Mohanty
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