Transnational feminism and women’s NGOs

2021 ◽  
pp. 154-162
Author(s):  
Nanette Funk
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Feminism

Conclusion

Gender Effect ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Moeller
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Transnational Feminism ◽  
Market Driven

To illustrate the corporate search for new population and geographic frontiers, the concluding chapter traces the Nike Foundation’s movement away from the perceived limitations of traditional development channels and into Silicon Valley’s world of fast capital and market-driven enterprise through the Girl Effect Accelerator. It reveals the expansionary tendencies of corporatized development, as third world girls are promoted as a potential billion-dollar market and, thus, a valuable new capitalist frontier. The chapter then analyzes how and why Nike Inc. decided to end its investment in the Girl Effect. The conclusion ends by analyzing the phenomenon of corporatized development in light of emergent trends within transnational feminism.

Maasai Girls' Subjectivities and the Nexus of Gender Justice and Education Rights Discourse

2018 ◽  
pp. 156-170
Author(s):  
Serena Koissaba
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Transnational Feminism ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Gender And Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Education Interventions ◽  
Rights Discourse

Global development discourse around the interplay between social justice and childhood issues are complicated when interpreting these ideas contextually through translocational gender and cultural lenses. This chapter attempted to address some of the following questions: How do international gender and education interventions problematize the transition for Maasai girls as they transition from childhood to adulthood? Can Amartya Sen's ‘capability framework, work effectively for African children in Kenya who by their cultural norms become adults before the age of 18? In what ways are the social justice schemes producing disaggregated cultural structures for Maasai Girls? This chapter, therefore examined how Maasai girls' subjectivities are affected by gender and education rights mediation through Amartya Sen's ‘capabilities approach' and a human rights framework. The experiences and perspectives of female subjects have seemingly been distorted within feminist and geopolitical rhetoric. Transnational feminism in this work is positioned as a postcolonial project that employs theories of human rights, capabilities, and multiculturalism as lenses in which to interrogate practices of erasures of voice and representation of active participants within the movement, but reconsider what feminist theory can do to move the conversation away from male-centric ideologies.

Feminism against Japan’s Military Sexual Violence

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-176
Author(s):  
Eika Tai
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Transnational Feminism ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Mutual Transformation ◽  
Feminist Scholar ◽  
Colonial Empire ◽  
Global Feminism ◽  
New Form ◽  
Transnational Solidarity

I find a new form of feminism in the activist narratives and analyze its nature by following the theorization of Ōgoshi Aiko, a feminist scholar in philosophy, who has maintained personal contacts with activists, including the late Matsui Yayori. This feminism, which I call JMSV feminism, differs from global feminism in that it has achieved transnational solidarity based on the realization that women are differentiated by power relations, not based on the discourse of universal womanhood promoted by global feminism. JMSV feminism is a form of critical transnational feminism characterized by postcolonial historical consciousness; intersectionality; transnational solidarity; mutual transformation; and the centrality of survivors. JMSV activists have demonstrated how feminists of a former colonial empire may develop an ethical relationship with underprivileged women by listening to their voices with moral humility. They also suggest that feminism is effective when it intersects with other kinds of activism.

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