Recasting Global Feminisms: Toward a Comparative Historical Approach to Women's Activism and Feminist Scholarship

Examines the U of Michigan Global Feminism Project (GFP). Information obtained from interviews counters the assumption that Western European & US feminism directs the feminist agenda for all other parts of the world. A GFP collaboration between China, India, Poland, & the US is described &am...

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Published in:Feminist studies 2010-03, Vol.36 (1), p.13-39
Main Authors: Lal, Jayati, McGuire, Kristin, Stewart, Abigail J., Zaborowska, Magdalena, Pas, Justine M.
Format: Article
Language:eng
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Summary:Examines the U of Michigan Global Feminism Project (GFP). Information obtained from interviews counters the assumption that Western European & US feminism directs the feminist agenda for all other parts of the world. A GFP collaboration between China, India, Poland, & the US is described & the "sources, directions, & timing of flows in feminist ideas" are compared across the four sites to emphasize the multiplicity of feminist movements & to recast conventional understandings of global feminism. J. Lindroth
ISSN:0046-3663
2153-3873