Recasting global feminisms: Toward a comparative historical approach to women's activism and feminist scholarship

Feminist Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-39

  Lai, Jayati ^a   McGuire, Kristin ^a   Stewart, Abigail J ^a   Zaborowska, Magdalena ^a   Pas, Justine M ^a  

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References (42)

1. Domitila Barrios de Chungara and Moema Viezzer, Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines, ed. and trans. Victoria Ortiz (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978), 199, 201-2.
2. Aihwa Ong, "Colonialism and Modernity: Feminist Re-Presentations of Women in Non-Western Societies, " Inscriptions, nos. 3-4 (1988): 82.
3. Robin Morgan, ed., Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Global Anthology (New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984).
4. Fiona Flew et al., "Introduction: Local Feminisms, Global Futures, " Women's Studies International Forum 22, no. 4 (1999): 395.
5. Dorothy Helly, "Beijing '95: The Fourth World Conference on Women, " NWSA Journals, no. 1 (1996): 171 (emphasis added).
6. Peggy Antrobus, "Bringing Grassroots Women's Needs to the International Arena, " Development 39 June 1996): 64 (emphasis added).
7. This point is made most clearly in Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses, " in Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, ed. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991).
8. See Delia Aguilar, "Feminism in the New World Order, " Nature, Society, and Thought 6, no. 2(1993): 179-205.
9. See also Abigail J. Stewart, Jayati Lal, and Kristin McGuire, "Global Feminisms' Multiple Histories: Learning from Comparative Case Studies of Women's Activism and Scholarship, " Signs (forthcoming).
10. Kelly Coate, "Conclusion: Reflections on Global Feminisms, " in Global Feminist Politics: Identities in a Changing World, ed. Suki Ali, Kelly Coate, and Wangui wa Goro (London: Routledge, 2000), 177.
11. See GFP Web .site, "Global Feminisms: Comparative Case Studies of Women's Activism and Scholarship, " www.umich.edu/∼glblfem/en for details on the project, interview transcripts, and DVDs, and a complete list of staff who contributed to the project.
12. GFP India thematic film transcript, see www.umich.edu/~glblfem/india/ India-thematic-film.pdf, 1.
13. Elizabeth Cole, cited on GFP US Web site, www.umich.edu/∼glblfem/en/ us.html.
14. GFP China Booklet, www.umich.edu/∼glblfem/en/transcripts/china/ BOOKLET-C-E-102806.pdf, 260-61.
15. Wang Jinling, Zhang Jian, and Wang Zheng, "Project Plan for GFP in China" (Global Feminisms Project, internal correspondence, unpublished, 2002).
16. GFP China thematic film transcript, www.umich.edu/∼glblfem/en/ transcripts/thematic/China-thematic-film.pdf, 1.
17. Magdalena J. Zaborowska and Justine M. Pas, "Talking 'Woman' in the Other Europe: The Case of Poland since 1989" (unpublished manuscript).
18. GFP Poland Web site, www.umich.edu/∼glblfem/en/poland.html.
19. GFP-Poland thematic film transcript, www.umich.edu/∼glblfem/en/ transcripts/poland/BOOKLET-P-E-102806.pdf, 1.
20. Sandra Harding, "Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What Is 'Strong Objectivity'?" in Feminist Epistemologies, ed. Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter (New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1993), 49-83.
21. GFP India thematic film transcript, 1.
22. GFP Polish thematic film transcript, 1.
23. Slawomira Walczewska, on the Poland Web site, www.umich.edu/∼glblfem/ AboutSites.html.
24. Cole, on the US Web site, www.umich.edu/∼glblfem/AboutSites.html.
25. Zhang Jian, on the China Web site, www.umich.edu/∼glblfem/AboutSites. html.
26. Wang Jinling, Zhang Jian, and Wang Zheng, "Project Plan.".
27. Walczewska, on the Poland Web site.
28. GFP India booklet, www.umich.edu/~glblfem/india/BOOKLET-I-E-1O28O6.pdf, 143-44.
29. See also Forum against Sex Determination and Sex Pre-Selection, "Using Technology against Sex Determination and the Question of Choice, " in Minding Our Lives: Women from the South and North Reconnect Ecology and Health, ed. Vandana Shiva (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1993), 78-87; a.
30. GFP India booklet, 149, 144-45. Net En is an injectable progestogen that was developed by a German firm but is banned in Germany, and Depo Provera is a synthetic progesterone contraceptive injection that was banned in the United States because it is carcinogenic. Both are being "dumped" on the Indian market by multinational pharmaceutical companies.
31. See Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour (London: Zed Books, 1986), chap. 4.
32. Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books, 1993).
33. See GFP Poland Booklet, www.umich.edu/∼glblfem/en/transcripts/poland/ BOOK-LET-P-E-102806.pdf, 87, 88-89. For an overview of these two positions, the abolitionist and the human rights option.
34. Priscilla Alexander, "Feminism, Sex Workers, and Human Rights, " in Whores and Other Feminists, ed. Jill Nagle (New York: Routledge, 1997), 83-97.
35. GFP Poland Booklet, 89 (emphasis added).
36. GFP China Booklet, 151-52.
37. GFP China Booklet, Ibid., 12.
38. GFP China Booklet, Ibid., 12-13.
39. GFP China Booklet, Ibid., 125, 126.
40. For a discussion of the debate, see Sally Baden and Anne Marie Goetz, "Who Needs [Sex] When You Can Have [Gender]? Conflicting Discourses on Gender at Beijing, " Feminist Review, no. 56 (1997): 3-25.
41. GFP US Booklet, www.umich.edu/∼glblfem/en/transcripts/us/BOOKLET-U-E- 102806.pdf, 181-82.
42. GFP US Booklet, www.umich.edu/∼glblfem/en/transcripts/us/BOOKLET-U-E- 102806.pdf, Ibid., 333, 335.