Transnational FeminismBooks

A contemporary collection placing street movements, Black and decolonial theory, Indigenous ecological knowledge, queer practice, and art across the Americas on one political map.

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.

A revisionist history showing how Latin American and Caribbean feminists helped build international women’s rights and human-rights institutions while contesting US dominance inside 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 shows how the United States legitimates war through “women's liberation,” joining antiracist and anticapitalist feminism to occupation, torture, economic warfare, and transnational resistance.

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 studies women’s cooperation across Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and Bosnia-Hercegovina to understand gender, nationalism, and democratic difference.

This landmark anthology grounds African feminist politics in struggles over land, work, food, health, citizenship, and state power across ten national contexts.

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