Transnational Feminism, Global Politics, and Human Rights

Books

• Braine, N. (2023). Abortion beyond the law: Building a global feminist movement for self-managed abortion. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/3006-abortion-beyond-the-law
• Cook, R. J., Erdman, J. N., & Dickens, B. M. (Eds.). (2014). Abortion law in transnational perspective: Cases and Ccntroversies. University of Pennsylvania Press. https://www.pennpress.org/9780812223965/abortion-law-in-transnational-perspective/
• Engle, K. (2020). The grip of sexual violence in conflict: Feminist interventions in international law. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30534
• Enloe, C. (2023). Twelve feminist lessons of war. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520397675/twelve-feminist-lessons-of-war
• Rimmer, S. H., & Ogg, K. (2019). Research handbook on feminist engagement with international law. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/research-handbook-on-feminist-engagement-with-international-law-9781785363917.html
• Hesford, W. S., & Kozol, W. (Eds.). (2005). Just advocacy?: Women’s human rights, transnational feminism, and the politics of representation. Rutgers University Press. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/just-advocacy/9780813535890/
• Hoard, S. (2015). Gender expertise in public policy: Towards a theory of policy success. Palgrave Macmillan London. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137365170
• Htun, M., & Weldon, S. L. (2018). The logics of gender justice: State action and women’s rights around the world. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/logics-of-gender-justice/EB161B6A933F49D89957F865015998B9
• Swarr, A. L., & Nagar, R. (2010). Critical transnational feminist praxis. SUNY Press. https://sunypress.edu/Books/C/Critical-Transnational-Feminist-Praxis
• Lykke, N., Koobak, R., Bakos, P., Arora, S., & Mohamed, K. (Eds.). (2023). Pluriversal conversations on transnational feminisms. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Pluriversal-Conversations-on-Transnational-Feminisms-And-Words-Collide/Lykke-Koobak-Bakos-Arora-Mohamed/p/book/9781032457994
• MacKenzie, M., & Wegner, N. (Eds.). (2021). Feminist solutions for ending war. Pluto Press. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745342863/feminist-solutions-for-ending-war/
• Majewska, E. (2021). Feminist antifascism: Counterpublics of the common. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/2660-feminist-antifascism
• Miles, A. (2013). Women in a globalizing world: Transforming equality, development, diversity and peace. Inanna Publications and Education Inc. https://www.inanna.ca/product/women-globalizing-world-equality-development-peace-and-diver/
• Mohanty, C. T. (2003). Feminism without borders: Decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/feminism-without-borders
• Ortbals, C. D., & Poloni-Staudinger, L. M. (2018). Gender and political violence: Women changing the politics of terrorism. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-73628-0
• Riley, R. L., Mohanty, C. T., & Pratt, M. B. (Eds.) (2008). Feminism and war: Confronting US imperialism. Zed Books. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/feminism-and-war-9781848136687/
• Suchland, J. (2015). Economies of violence: Transnational feminism, postsocialism, and the politics of sex trafficking. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/economies-of-violence
• Tella, K. K. (2023). Abortion rights, reproductive justice and the state: International perspectives. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Abortion-Rights-Reproductive-Justice-and-the-State-International-Perspectives/Tella/p/book/9781032207827
• Tripp, A. M., Ferree, M. M., & Ewig, C. (Eds.) (2013). Gender, violence, and human security: Critical feminist perspectives. NYU Press. https://academic.oup.com/nyu-press-scholarship-online/book/19408
• Vijeyarasa, R. (2021). International women’s rights law and gender equality: Making the law work for women. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/International-Womens-Rights-Law-and-Gender-Equality-Making-the-Law-Work/Vijeyarasa/p/book/9780367549411

Chapters

• Fernandes, L. (2013). U.S. state practices and the rhetoric of human rights. In Transnational feminism in the United States (pp. 32-60). NYU Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814760963.003.0002
• Ganzfried, M. (2021). The beginnings of AI’s interest in VAW. In Amnesty International and women’s rights: Feminist strategies, leadership commitment and internal resistances (pp. 103-176). transcript Verlag. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/75012
• Jain, D. (2018). The evolution of ideas: A feminist’s reflections on the partnership with the UN System. In The journey of a southern feminist (pp. 218-234). Sage Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9789353280710
• McLaren, M. A. (2017). Decolonizing rights: Transnational feminism and “women’s rights as human rights.” In Decolonizing feminism: Transnational feminism and globalization (pp. 83-116). Rowman & Littlefield. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786602596/Decolonizing-Feminism-Transnational-Feminism-and-Globalization
• Ní Aoláin, F. (2020). Advancing a feminist analysis of transitional justice. In M. A. Fineman & E. Zinsstag (Eds.), Feminist perspectives on transitional justice (pp. 43-62). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781839700682.004

Scholarly Papers and Articles

• Asmarani, O. (2023, December 4). Reflecting and envisioning transnational Southeast Asian feminist and gender justice movements. New Naratif, Democratic Participation Research Series, vol. 1, no. 43. https://newnaratif.com/reflecting-and-envisioning-transnational-southeast-asian-feminist-and-gender-justice-movement/
• Herr, R. S. (2014). Reclaiming third world feminism: or why transnational feminism needs third world feminism. Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism,12(1), 1-30. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/541869
• Johnson, C. (2020). Responsibility, affective solidarity and transnational maternal feminism. Feminist Theory, 21(2), 175-198. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700119859768
• Keahey, J. (2023). Transnational feminisms in development: A manifesto for emancipatory praxis. Sociology of Development, 9(4), 346-365. https://doi.org/10.1525/sod.2023.9.4.346
• Mama, A., & Okazawa-Rey, M. (2012). Militarism, conflict and women’s activism in the global era: Challenges and prospects for women in three West African contexts. Feminist Review, 101(1), 97-123. https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2011.57
• Reilly, N. (2011). Doing transnational feminism, transforming human rights: the emancipatory possibilities revisited. Irish Journal of Sociology, 19(2), 60-76. https://www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI/mitchell-institute/FileStore/Filetoupload,896701,en.pdf
• Turkington, R. (2023). ‘Once and for all’: The Fourth UN World Conference on Women and the institutionalisation of women’s human rights in American foreign policy. Gender & History, 35(3), 846-861. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12704

Popular Press

• Both, L. (2023, November 27). What a feminist approach to the Middle East conflict could look like. International Politics and Society. www.ips-journal.eu/topics/foreign-and-security-policy/what-a-feminist-approach-to-the-middle-east-conflict-could-look-like-7151/
• Chopra, R. (2023, September 28). Interview – Inderpal Grewal. E-International Relations. www.e-ir.info/2023/09/28/interview-inderpal-grewal/
• Global authoritarianism, women’s rights and the power of feminist organizing. (2023, May 15). Ms. Magazine. msmagazine.com/2023/05/15/global-womens-rights-feminism/
• González-López, G. (2020, February 12). Un violador en tu camino: The song that made transnational feminism go viral. Ms. Magazine. msmagazine.com/2020/02/12/un-violador-en-tu-camino-the-song-that-made-transnational-feminism-go-viral/
• Mahdavi, P. (2020, December 28). The global women’s movements that helped Kamala Harris rise. Zocalo. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/12/28/global-feminist-networks-kamala-harris-rise/ideas/essay/
• Redden, E. (2018, December 4). Global attack on gender studies. Inside Higher Ed. www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/12/05/gender-studies-scholars-say-field-coming-under-attack-many-countries-around-globe
• Samar, S. (2021, September 22). “Women’s rights are not just ‘western values’”: A warning not to learn the wrong lessons from Afghanistan. Ms. Magazine. msmagazine.com/2021/09/22/womens-rights-western-values-afghanistan-feminism/
• Stoddard, J., & Curtin, E. (2023, April 14). Be a feminist everywhere: Interview with Tània Verge Mestre.” IPI Global Observatory. theglobalobservatory.org/2023/04/be-a-feminist-everywhere-interview-with-tania-verge-mestre/