Transnational Feminisms and Geographies of Gender
摘要
This chapter explores the critical intersections of genderGender, spaceSpace, and power through the lens of transnational feminisms, foregrounding the significance of spatial analysis in understanding gendered experiences under global capitalism. It contends that any discussion of geographiesGeography of genderGender must engage with the shifting dynamics of the global political economy, shaped by intersecting systems of oppressionOppression—including heteropatriarchy, neo/settler colonialism, neoliberalismNeoliberalism, nationalism, and imperialism. These forces produce and exacerbate genderGender-based injustices across multiple scales, mediated by race, class, caste, sexualitySexuality, nationality and other axes of difference. Transnational feminist frameworks have challenged Eurocentric and U.S. liberal feminisms that universalize “womanWomen” and nation-centric feminist paradigms, offering instead an intersectional and anti-imperialist critique of structural violence and uneven developmentDevelopment. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship in feminist geographyFeminist geography and genderGender studies, the chapter is structured in three parts: it first defines the scope, genealogies, and contributions of transnational feminisms; second, it examines their inherently spatial critiques of neoliberal globalization and developmentDevelopment; and third, it analyzes how these frameworks inform the author’s research on neoliberal globalization and attendant transformations of work and workplaces in India. The chapter highlights how transnational feminisms enable a nuanced understanding of genderGender justice, resistance and solidarity across borders, and how they help rethink knowledge production in the context of global hierarchies.