Globalization and feminist waves

Valentine M. Moghadam

Chapter 8 in A Modern Guide to Globalization, 2025, pp 188-212 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter addresses the links between globalization waves and feminist waves. Scholars have studied globalization waves in terms of investment and trade, while others have taken a multi-dimensional view of globalization processes. Feminist waves have been identified in terms of women's activism across time and space, in both national spaces and in the form of transnational feminist networks. Indeed, transnational feminist organizing has constituted a sort of global wave, a transformative force channeling social energy across social systems in a global environment. But exactly how has that global feminist wave influenced, and been influenced by, waves of political, economic, and cultural processes spanning borders and eras? This chapter has three objectives. First, it surveys the literatures on globalization and on transnational feminism. Second, it situates feminist waves in larger world-systemic processes, revises the conventional (largely U.S.-centric) periodization of feminist waves, and identifies collective actors, outcomes, and achievements. Third, it draws attention to the globalization of feminist knowledge in (a) women's productive and reproductive labor, (b) war, peace, and security, and (c) violence against women.

Keywords: Feminist waves; Transnational feminist organizing; Globalization of feminist knowledge; World systemic processes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802205688
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