Transnational feminism

Transnational feminism refers to both a contemporary feminist paradigm and the corresponding activist movement. Both the theories and activist practices are concerned with how globalization and capitalism affect people across nations, races, genders, classes, and sexualities.

The term “transnational” is reacting to and rejecting terms like “international” and “global” feminism. Transnational feminists believe that the term “international” puts more emphasis on nation-states as distinct entities, and that “global” speaks to liberal feminist theories on “global sisterhood” that ignore Third World women and women of color’s perspectives on gender inequality.

The transnational feminist academic paradigm draws from postcolonial feminist theories, which emphasize how colonialist legacies have shaped and continue to shape the social, economic, and political oppression of women and men across the globe. It rejects the idea that people from different nations have the same subjectivities and experiences with gender inequality, and recognizes that global capitalism has created similar relations of exploitation and inequality, around which feminists around the world can find solidarity and seek collaboration.

Transnational feminist practice is involved in activist movements across the globe that work together to understand the role of gender, the state, race, class, and sexuality in critiquing and resisting structures of patriarchal, capitalist power. It is attentive to feminism as both a liberatory formation and a practice that has been oppressed by and sometimes been complicit with colonialism, racism, and imperialism. As such, it resists utopic ideas about "global sisterhood" while simultaneously working to lay the groundwork for more productive and equitable social relations among women across borders and cultural contexts.

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