"Both the theories and activist practices are concerned with how globalization and capitalism affect people across nations, races, genders, classes, and sexualities."
Examines the intersection between gender, race, and class in a global context.
Intersectionality: Intersectionality refers to the interconnectedness of different forms of oppression experienced by individuals belonging to multiple identity categories, such as race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality, and ability. Understanding intersectionality is crucial to feminist movements seeking to address structural inequalities.
Feminist theory: Feminist theory engages with the study of gender and its relation to power dynamics within society. It seeks to understand the ways in which gender works to shape social hierarchies and promotes social justice and gender equality.
Globalization: Globalization refers to the processes that have produced a more interconnected world, often characterized by rapid economic growth and the increasing movement of people, goods, and technologies across borders. Transnational feminism is concerned with analyzing the gendered implications of globalization, particularly how globalization both exacerbates and reproduces hierarchies and inequalities.
Postcolonial theory: Postcolonial theory examines the ongoing effects of colonialism in shaping contemporary social, political, cultural, and economic systems. Transnational feminism is concerned with the specific ways in which colonialism has impacted the gendered experiences of women.
Feminist politics: Feminist politics are the ways in which feminist movements engage with political systems to effect change. Transnational feminism seeks to understand the varied ways that feminist politics can operate across national and cultural boundaries.
Cultural studies: Cultural studies examines the ways in which cultural practices and representations are produced, consumed, and contested within society. Transnational feminism engages with cultural studies to better understand how gendered identities are represented and performative in diverse cultural contexts.
Gender and development: Gender and development is a field of study that seeks to explore the ways in which gendered inequalities manifest in development processes and the impacts and benefits that development processes have on diverse gender groups. Transnational feminism seeks to ensure that gender and development initiatives are intersectional and inclusive.
Environmental justice: Environmental justice is concerned with the fair distribution of environmental benefits and harms across different social groups, drawing attention to the fact that people are disproportionately impacted by environmental degradation as a result of systemic social inequalities. Transnational feminism contributes to understanding the gendered impacts of environmental degradation and harms.
Health and reproductive justice: Feminist movements have long advocated for reproductive health and rights, including the right to access safe and legal abortion services. Transnational feminism seeks to understand the intersections of gender, race, class, and other identities and how they impact access to reproductive and other health services.
Social movements and activism: Transnational feminism is deeply concerned with understanding the ways in which feminist activism operates within diverse sociopolitical contexts and the ways in which it engages with and challenges intersecting systems of power.
Postcolonial feminism: Analyzes the interconnectedness of gender and colonialism in global contexts, and emphasizes the importance of decolonizing feminist thought and practice.
Black feminism: Explores the intersection of race, gender, and class in the experiences and struggles of Black women, and their exclusion from mainstream feminism.
Third World feminism: Examines the experiences and struggles of women in the Global South, and critiques the ways in which Western feminism can ignore or marginalize these perspectives.
Feminist post-structuralism: Emphasizes the ways in which power operates through language, discourse, and knowledge production, and challenges universalizing assumptions of feminism.
Transnational feminist legal studies: Examines the role of law in perpetuating or challenging gendered inequality, and emphasizes the importance of understanding the transnational and local contexts in which legal decisions are made.
Global feminist ethics: Focuses on the ethical implications of globalized issues such as migration, labor exploitation, and environmental degradation on women’s lives, and encourages a feminist approach to ethical decision-making.
Nativist feminist: Advocate native rights and sovereignty, consider the impacts of increasing globalization and policies such as the North American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA).
Multiracial feminism: Recognizes intersecting oppressions experienced by women in locations around the world.
Ecofeminism examines the exploitation and oppression of both nature and women and advocates for sustainable and equitable societies that would eliminate these oppressions.: Ecofeminism explores the interconnectedness of gender, nature, and environmental issues, aiming to dismantle the exploitation and oppression of women and nature, promoting sustainable and equitable societies.
"This movement asks to critique the ideologies of traditional white, classist, western models of feminist practices from an intersectional approach."
"Transnational feminists believe that the term 'international' puts more emphasis on nation-states as distinct entities."
"Transnational feminists believe that 'global' speaks to liberal feminist theories on 'global sisterhood' that ignore Third World women and women of color's perspectives on gender inequality and other problems globalization inherently brings."
"The transnational feminist academic paradigm draws from postcolonial feminist theories."
"It rejects the idea that people from different regions have the same subjectivities and experiences with gender inequality."
"It recognizes that global capitalism has created similar relations of exploitation and inequality."
"Transnational feminism further complicates global capitalism and neoliberalism."
"It is involved in activist movements across the globe that work together to understand the role of gender, the state, race, class, and sexuality in critiquing and resisting structures of patriarchal, capitalist power."
"It is attentive to feminism as both a liberatory formation and a practice that has been oppressed by and sometimes been complicit with colonialism, racism, and imperialism."
"It resists utopian ideas about 'global sisterhood'."
"It simultaneously works to lay the groundwork for more productive and equitable social relations among women across borders and cultural contexts."
"It is concerned with how globalization and capitalism affect people across nations, races, genders, classes, and sexualities."
"The recognition that global capitalism has created similar relations of exploitation and inequality creates dialogue which feminists around the world can find solidarity and seek collaboration."
"This movement asks to critique the ideologies of traditional white, classist, western models of feminist practices from an intersectional approach."
"Transnational feminists believe that the term 'international' puts more emphasis on nation-states as distinct entities."
"It recognizes Third World women and women of color's perspectives on gender inequality."
"To understand the role of gender, the state, race, class, and sexuality in critiquing and resisting structures of patriarchal, capitalist power."
"It resists utopian 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."
"As such, it resists utopian 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."