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The acceleration of economic globalization and the rapid global
flows of people, cultural goods, and information have intensified
the importance of developing transnational understandings of
contemporary issues. Transnational feminist perspectives have
provided a unique outlook on women's lives and have deepened our
understanding of the gendered nature of global
processes.Transnational Feminism in the United Statesexamines how
transnational perspectives shape the ways in which we produce,
consume, and disseminate knowledge about the world within the
United States, and how the paradigm of transnational feminism is
affected in nuanced ways by national narratives and public
discourses within the country itself.An innovative theoretical
project that is both deconstructive and constructive, this
bookinterrogates the limits of feminist thought, primarily through
case studies that illustrate its power to create entirely new
fields of research out of traditionally interdisciplinary lines of
inquiry. Leela Fernandes discusses ways to approach, analyze, and
capture processes that exceed and unsettle the nation-state within
the transnational feminist paradigm. Examining the links between
power and knowledge that bind interdisciplinary theory and
research, she shines new light on issues such as human rights and
the United States war on terror as well as academic debates about
transnational feminist perspectives on global issues. A commanding
and thought-provoking analysis, Transnational Feminism in the
United Statespowerfully contributes to central debates in the field
of Women's Studies and related cross-disciplinary scholarship on
feminist theory and gender from a global perspective.Leela
Fernandesis Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science at
the University of Michigan, and author ofIndia's New Middle Class:
Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform;Producing Workers:
The Politics of Gender, Classand Culture in the Calcutta Jute
Mills; andTransforming Feminist Practice.
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