Jan 13, WEEK ONE Feminist frames and debates, space/place, transnational research projects

This opening set of readings presents 1) recent thinking by senior and more junior theorists of what has come to be called Transnational Feminist Theory as they revisit key frames: Third World, Postcolonial, Intersectional, and Decolonial; and 2) an example of a research project in the recorded lecture by Kathy Davis provides an overview of her book project researching a quintessential transnational feminist project: the multiple translations of Our Bodies Ourselves (check out http://action.ourbodiesourselves.org/page/content/obostaughtme/).

Read (look under Canvas "Modules") and Watch:

*Chandra Mohanty “Transnational Feminist Crossings, Neoliberalism and Radical Critique”

*Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan “Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Feminist Practices”

*Sylvanna Falcon & Jennifer Nash “Shifting Angles… Intersectionality and Transnational Feminism”

*Rangoo Seodu Herr “Reclaiming Third World Feminism”

*Kathy Davis “Korenman Lecture: Feminism as Traveling Theory” (if you prefer not to watch, please read the intro to her book)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-kRUGf3Pew (Links to an external site.)

Recommended:

*Chandra Mohanty “Gender matters: Theoretical and methodological reflections” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh7bGnIM5uk (Links to an external site.)

* Mrinalini Sinha “From Women to Gender and Back Again?...” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8hL1TyCtCM

*Mohanty “Under Western Eyes” and “Under Western Eyes Revisited”

*Sara Sedem “Decolonial Intersectionality and Transnational Feminist Movement”

*Kaplan “The politics of location as transnational feminist critical practice”

in Grewal & Kaplan eds. Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodedernity and Transnational Feminist Practices

*Grewal and Kaplan “Intro to Scattered Hegemonies”

*Inderpal Grewal “Intro” Transnational America: feminisms, diasporas, neoliberalisms

For book review:

Leela Fernandez Transnational Feminism in the United States (NYU 2013)

For teaching:

*Kathy Davis The Making of Our Bodies Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders (Duke 2007)

*Saba Bahar “Human rights are women’s rights: Amnesty International and the family” p. 265-289 in Bonnie Smith, ed. Global Feminisms Since 1945

*Arati Rao “The politics of gender and culture in international human rights discourse” p167-175 Women’s Rights, Human Rights Julie Peters & Andrea Wolper eds Routledge

*Amrita Basu “Globalization of the Local/Localization of the global: mapping transnational women’s movements” p68-77 in Feminist Theory Reader Carole McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim, eds. Routledge 2003