2011 national legislation and transnational feminism
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Contemporary feminist scholarship seeks the development of transnational conversations between women in different geopolitical spaces in order to confront the problems of a global age. Yet, if these conversations are predicated on Eurocentric and ahistorical understandings of South/North, first/third world and metropole/colony, feminism risks replicating these dichotomies in the name of a universalised project for gendered rights and resistances. Recognising this, much critical feminist scholarship also argues for a specific and mediated politics of location through historical contextualisation (e.g., Mohanty, 2003; Kaplan, 2006). In this paper, I explore the tension between recognising location and conducting transnational feminist politics by considering the difficulties that Australian feminist praxis must confront, if it is genuinely to engage in transnational feminist conversation.
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