Transnational feminist network

A transnational feminist network (TFN) is a network of women’s groups who work together for women’s rights at both a national and transnational level.

TFNs are similar to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) but while NGOs work at a local and national level, TFNs create coalitions across borders. Globalization affects women worldwide in adverse ways and TFNs emerged in response to these effects.

According to Johanna Brenner in her article Transnational Feminism and the Struggle for Global Justice:

Brenner also states that

Programs like Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) are part of the package of globalization that is presented to other countries; and while such programs are portrayed as being valuable to improve the status of a country, they result in creating worse situations for the peoples of a country.

Women’s groups form in response to the negative effects of globalization and TFNs emerge when these women’s groups come together to resolve shared issues. These groups work with one another across borders and they recognize their differences but also discover their similarities and form strong coalition’s bases on these similarities. In describing a conference held by the International Network of Women’s Studies Journals, Tahera Aftab relayed that

Just as these academics worked to reach consensus on issues, so do women’s groups who form TFNs.

Valentine Mogadam best describes TFNs in her book Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks. She states in her text:

There are various issues that TFNs deal with in a structural and organizational context—the most prevalent being the lack of financial funding. Lack of proper funding usually results in a lack to necessary resources but many TFNs usually find a way to accomplish their goals with the minimal funding they do have available.

Types of TFNs include: -Feminism against neoliberalism; mainly about men and women's economic policy. -Feminism against fundamentalism. -Feminism against imperialism and war. -Feminism humanitarianism; feminism through kindness, sympathy, and direct aid.

A few TFN’s:

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