Transnational FeminismBooks

Edited by Lívia De Souza Lima, Edith Otero Quezada, and Julia Roth, this open-access collection connects feminist theory, embodied histories, and activist forms without treating the Americas as one tradition.

A feminist movement history spanning more than three decades and five continents, documenting how Women in Black used black clothing, silent vigils, and local coalitions against occupation, war, militarism, apartheid, and gendered violence.

Katherine M. Marino recovers Latin American feminists as architects of global women’s rights, tracing how leadership and social justice reshaped Pan-American organizing.

Centered on migrant Filipino domestic workers, Parreñas develops the international division of reproductive labor and offers a foundational account of global care chains, transnational families, and migrant women's labor.

A feminist collection spanning Western and non-Western settings that asks when migration enables agency and when it reorganizes labor, identity, and control.

This collection examines how the United States legitimates war through “women’s liberation” and connects antiracist feminism to anti-imperialist organizing.

Cynthia Cockburn follows women’s antiwar networks across several conflicts, tracing how nationalism, masculinity, racism, and empire make war while examining peace activism’s own contradictions.

This anthology reframes globalization through women's migration, domestic work, sex work, and care deficits, showing how household convenience in wealthy countries depends on emotional and bodily labor from the Global South.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty moves from a critique of the Western gaze to anticapitalist solidarity, grounding transnational feminism in history, labor relations, and shared struggle.

Cynthia Cockburn examines women’s cooperative projects in Belfast, Israel/Palestine, and Bosnia-Herzegovina to ask how democracy can cross conflict without erasing difference.

A 1997 anthology maps law, labor, care, and political organizing across ten African country cases - and opens a debate about how African feminisms are defined.

A foundational transnational feminist anthology tracing colonial legacies through labor, state power, erotic autonomy, Indigenous sovereignty, and grassroots democratic organizing.