Theorising Transnational Feminist Praxis

Abstract

This paper identifies major features of the transnational feminist theory. The framework of transnational feminism as opposite to the universally upheld ‘global sisterhood’ in activist practices is to be analyzed in the paper. By drawing on psychologically biased notions of structural inequality where global feminism identifies racism and sexism in individualized terms rather than calling for collective feeling, Transnational feminist praxis subverts the Liberal Feminism which is gaining worldwide attention recently. In this paper, major women’s studies professor Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s works are conceptualized in brief within a larger framework of feminism and anti-imperialism. This paper addresses issues important to Gender studies, namely how to incorporate differences of race, class, and sexuality more fully into feminist discourse so as to particularize the fact of intersectionality in contexts.