Description
Thirteen essays bring together the views of expatriate, exiled and émigré feminists from various parts of the world and explore themes of exile, home, displacement and the practice of feminism across national boundaries.
Chapter
1 Émigré Feminism: An Introduction
2 Choosing Feminism, Choosing Exile: Towards the Development of a Transnational Feminist Consciousness
3 Afastada Apprehensions: The Politics of Post-exile Location and South Africa's Gendered Transition
4 Transnational Links in the Making of Latin American Feminisms: A View from the Margins
5 Feminist Discourse on Central and Eastern Europe: Hungarian Women's Groups in the Early 1990s as a Case Study
6 The Multiple Locations of a Czech Émigré Feminist: A Biographical Perspective
7 Catalyst, Nature, and Vitality of African-Canadian Feminism: A Panorama of an Émigré Feminist
8 There Is No Place Like Home: Caribbean Women's Feminism in Canada
9 Coming to Terms with Hijab in Canada and Turkey: Agonies of a Secular and Anti-orientalist Émigré Feminist
10 Émigré Iranian Feminism and the Construction of Muslim Woman
11 My Journey as a Woman across Continents
12 Transnational Subjectivities: Travelling to Greece with Karen Connelly
13 Western Feminism? Problems of Categorizing Women's Movements in Cross-national Research