Transnational feminisms

Articles

Chowdhury, E. H. (2009). Locating global feminisms elsewhere: Braiding US women of color and transnational feminisms. Cultural Dynamics, 21(1), 51-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374008100407 

Conway, J. M. (2017). Troubling transnational feminism(s): Theorising activist praxis. Feminist Theory, 18(2), 205-227. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700117700536 

Das, D. (2023). What transnational feminism has not disrupted yet: Toward a quilted epistemology. Meridians, 22(2), 240-266. https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10637591 

Davis, K. (2020). Who owns intersectionality? Some reflections on feminist debates on how theories travel. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 27(2), 113-127. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506819892659 

Dunn, K. (2009). Embodied transnationalism: bodies in transnational spaces. Population, Space and Place, 16(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.593  

Forester, S., Kelly-Thompson, K., Lusvardi, A., & Weldon, S. L. (2022). New dimensions of global feminist influence: Tracking feminist mobilization worldwide, 1975–2015. International Studies Quarterly, 66(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqab093 

Friedman, E. J., & Rodríguez Gustá, A. L. (2023). Feminists, popular feminists, and transfeminists: Young Argentine activists define their own identities. Journal of Youth Studies, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2023.2298318 

Johnson, C. (2020). Responsibility, affective solidarity and transnational maternal feminism. Feminist Theory, 21(2), 175-198. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700119859768 

Arat, Z. F. K. (2025). What’s in a name? Reclaiming Third World feminism for epistemic and transnational justice. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2025.2456604 

Misra, J., Rozario, T. D., & Chakraborty, D. (2022). Transnational feminist sociology. International Sociology, 37(2), 164-174. https://doi.org/10.1177/02685809221102285 

Mohanty, C. T. (2013). Transnational feminist crossings: On neoliberalism and radical critique. Signs, 38(4), https://doi.org/10.1086/669576 

Savaş, O., Duncan, L. E., Smith, H. M., & Stewart, A. J. (2024). The baggage and the benefits that travel with the F word: Transnational feminism and its discontents. ASAP: Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 24(3), 925-955. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12404   

Zerbe Enns, C., Díaz, L. C., & Bryant-Davis, T. (2020). Transnational feminist theory and practice: An introduction. Women & Therapy, 44(1–2), 11–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2020.1774997 

Books and Chapters

Baksh, R., & Harcourt, W. (Eds.). (2015). The Oxford handbook of transnational feminist movements. Oxford University Press.

Bezhanova, O., & Amador, R. E. (Eds.). (2021). Intersectional feminism in the age of transnationalism: Voices from the margins. Lexington Books. 

Bonifacio, G. T. (Ed.). (2018). Global currents in gender and feminisms: Canadian and international perspectives. Emerald Publishing.

Braidotti, R. (2011). Nomadic subjects: Embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory (2nd ed.). Columbia University Press.

Davis, K. (2007). The making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How feminism travels across borders. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390251 

Desai, M. (2013). Theorizing transnational feminisms. Routledge.

Fernandes, L. (2013). Transnational feminism in the United States: Knowledge, ethics, power. NYU Press.

Ferree, M. M., & Tripp, A. M. (Eds.). (2006). Global feminism: Transnational women’s activism, organizing, and human rights. NYU Press. 

Goetz, J., & Mayer, S. (Eds.). (2023). Global perspectives on anti-feminism: Far-right and religious attacks on equality and diversity. Edinburgh University Press.

Grewal, I. (2005). Transnational America: Feminisms, diasporas, neoliberalism. Duke University Press. 

Martinsson, L., & Mulinari, D. (Eds.). (2018). Dreaming global change, doing local feminisms: Visions of feminism. Global North/Global South encounters, conversations and disagreements. Routledge.

McLaren, M. A. (Ed.). (2017). Decolonizing feminism: Transnational feminism and globalization. Rowman & Littlefield. 

Mohanty, C. T. (2003). Feminism without borders: Decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity. Duke University Press. 

Morgan, R. (Ed.). (2016). Sisterhood is global: The international women’s movement anthology [New ed.]. Open Road Integrated Media. 

Phillips, R. (2023). Practising feminism for social welfare: A global perspective. Routledge.

Siim, B., & Stoltz, P. (Eds.). The Palgrave handbook of gender and citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan.

Smith, B. G., & Robinson, N. (Eds.). (2022). The Routledge global history of feminism. Routledge.

Thayer, M. (2000). Traveling feminisms: From embodied women to gendered citizenship. In Burawoy, M., Blum, J. A., George, S., Gille, Z., et al., Global ethnography: Forces, connections, and imaginations in a postmodern world, 203-233.

Other Resources

Campt, T., & Thomas, D. A. (2008). Gendering diaspora [Special issue]. Feminist Review, 90(1). https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/fera/90/1

Gqola, P. D., Perera, I., Phadke, S., Shahrokni, N., et al. (Eds.). (2024). Gender and public space [Special issue]. Gender & Development, 32(1-2). https://www.genderanddevelopment.org/3212-gender-and-public-space/

Khosroshahi, Z., & Saljoughi, S. (Eds.). (2023). Transnational feminist approaches to film and media from the Middle East and North Africa [Special issue]. Transnational Screens, 14(2). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtrc21/14/2

Journals

International Feminist Journal of Politics

Journal of International Women’s Studies

Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society

Women’s Studies International Forum