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Maylei Blackwell, Laura Briggs, and Mignonette Chiu The special issue editorial collective organized this roundtable as part of the Transnational Feminisms Summer Institute held at Ohio State University in July 2014. Given the abundant circulation of the term "transnational feminism" in current women's studies scholarship, dissertations, and job descriptions, the collective invited scholars to trace their own genealogies of transnational feminisms and describe what they think is at stake in those genealogies. We asked them to address the possibilities and limitations of transnational feminisms: Can feminist engagement with the transnational generate further analyses of globalization, empire, colonization, and feminist scholarship, or is it just as likely to reproduce those processes? Finally, we asked the scholars to consider how these critical engagements might open up spaces for thinking of new formations and coalitions not bounded by the nation-state. What are the genealogies of transnational feminisms for you? Laura Briggs (LB): "Transnational feminisms" as the name of an intellectual field in gender and sexuality studies is of relatively recent vintage. Despite the fact that Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Mohanty used the term in their Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies in 1997, it didn't immediately name a field. In 2001, when four
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Dec 23, 2015
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