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The Messy Relationship Between Feminisms and Globalizations

University of Connecticut

With some exceptions, feminist scholars have written either about gender and globalizations or about transnational feminisms but rarely examined the relationship between them. In this essay, the author wants to reflect on this relationship to highlight how they have shaped each other. She suggests that feminisms are important force-shaping globalizations. At the same time, the relationship between them is fraught and in some instances has furthered inequalities among feminists. But this does not preclude other possibilities as is evident in the work of feminists around the world.

Key Words: globalization • transnational feminism • gender • activism

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Gender & Society, Vol. 21, No. 6, 797-803 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0891243207309907


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