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This edited volume brings transnational feminisms in conversation
with intersectional and decolonial approaches. The conversation is
pluriversal; it voices and reflects upon a plurality of geo- and
corpopolitical as well as epistemic locations in specific Global
South/East/North/West contexts. The aim is to explore analytical
modes that encourage transgressing methodological nationalisms
which sustain unequal global power relations, and which are still
ingrained in the disciplinary perspectives that define much social
science and humanities research. A main focus of the volume is
methodological. It asks how an engagement with transnational,
intersectional and decolonial feminisms can stimulate
border-crossings. Boundaries in academic knowledge-building, shaped
by the limitations imposed by methodological nationalisms, are
challenged in the book. The same applies to boundaries of
conventional – disembodied and ethically un-affected – academic
writing modes. The transgressive methodological aims are also
pursued through mixing genres and shifting boundaries between
academic and creative writing. Pluriversal Conversations on
Transnational Feminisms is intended for broad global audiences of
researchers, teachers, professionals, students (from undergraduate
to postgraduate levels), activists and NGOs, interested in
questions about decoloniality, intersectionality, and transnational
feminisms, as well as in methodologies for boundary transgressing
knowledge-building.
The intermingled system of narratively constructed female
identities in Erzsebet Borcsok's Eszter reveals that even if
bordered by socially established patriarchal standards, constrained
by the expectations towards fulfilling an ideal woman's normative
image, and being offered nothing else but pre-empted role models to
live up to, women are still able to devise identities which, in the
shorter or longer run, annihilate the borders. The reading of this
novel shows that feminist thought could travel through borders,
cultures and time, forging alliances between women across
frontiers, language barriers and history."
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