Transnational Feminist Itineraries

Ashwini Tambe is Professor and Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at George Washington University, and author of Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws.Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and author of Making Transnational Feminism: Rural Women, NGO Activists, and Northern Donors in Brazil.

“This thoughtful and measured volume carefully addresses long-standing tensions in feminist theorizing and activism between transnational practices and intersectionality in new and stimulating ways, identifying the many congruent avenues of inquiry and methodologies they share. Bringing together perspectives from the United States and the Global South, it provides a robust critique of the legacies of racism and colonialism.” - Caren Kaplan, author of (Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above) “This innovative collection charts clear paths toward a renewed and reinvigorated transnational feminist theory and practice, offering fresh empirical materials and indispensable theoretical tools for navigating today’s turbulent global political waters. Adjudicating the manifest tensions among postcolonial, decolonial, intersectional, and transnational approaches in provocative yet generative ways, the volume amply demonstrates why and how transnational feminism as an analytic and as an intellectual-political project must be brought back front and center in a feminist studies suitable for the mid-twenty-first century and beyond.” - Sonia E. Alvarez, Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics and Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst "Transnational Feminist Itineraries provides in-depth analyses of how borders, whether geographical or ideological, do not need to be barriers to collaborative action." - Curtis J. Jewell (Community Literacy Journal) "This is an important scholarly project and this collection makes a significant contribution in having such studies interface with the analytic tradition of transnational feminism. . . . Assembling this fine collection of studies will move the conversation forward." - Janet M. Conway (Gender & Society) "This is a volume for academics immersed in the politics of liberation. It offers much food for thought through its reach into diverse spaces, related actors, and their mutual impact. Transnational Feminist Itineraries is recommended for those in the behavioral sciences, gender studies, and as a tool for faculty mentoring dissertation students interested in the overarching topics addressed here." - Yoly Zentella (Journal of Global South Studies)

• Editors' Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction / Ashwini Tambe and Millie Thayer  1Part I. Provocations1. The Many Destinations of Transnational Feminism / Ashwini Tambe and Millie Thayer  132. Beyond Antagonism: Rethinking Intersectionality, Transnationalism, and the Women's Studies Academic Job Market / Jennifer C. Nash  373. Rethinking Patriarchy and Corruption: Itineraries of US Academic Feminism and Transnational Analysis / Inderpal Grewal  52Part II. Scale4. Transnational Feminism and the Politics of Scale: The 2012 Antirape Protests in Dehli / Srila Roy  715. Transnational Shifts: The World March of Women in Mexico / Carmen L. DÍaz Alba  866. Network Ecologies and the Feminist Politics of "Mass Sterilization" in Brazil / Rafael de la Dehesa  101Part III. Interrogating Corporate Power7. Transnational Childhoods: Linking Global Production, Local Consumption, and Feminist Resistance / Laura L. Lovett  1218. Nike's Search for Third World Potential: The Tensions between Corporate Funding and Feminist Futures / Kathryn Moeller  133Part IV. Intractable Dilemmas9. Reproductive Justice and the Contradictions of International Surrogacy Claims by Gay Men in Australia / Nancy A. Naples and Mary Bernstein  15110. Wombs in India: Revisiting Commercial Surrogacy / Amrita Pande  171Part V. Nationalisms and Plurinationalisms11. Sporting Transnational Feminisms: Gender, Nation, and Women's Athletic Migrations between Brazil and the United States / Cara K. Snyder  19312. Mozambican Feminisms: Between the Local and the Global / Isabel Maria CortesÃo Casimiro and Catarina Casimiro Trindade  20713. Plural Sovereignty and la Familia Diversa in Ecuador's 2008 Constitution / Christine "Cricket" Keating and Amy Lind  222References  239Contributors  269Index  275