Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
4. FOREWORD: THE CHALLENGES OF CONSTRUCTING A TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY xix
5. PART 1 CHALLENGING MALE DOMINANCE Antiquity to 1800
6. 1 FEMINIST THOUGHT BEFORE THE RENAISSANCE 3
7. 2 CHRISTINE DE PIZAN AND THE QUERELLE DES FEMMES 19
8. 3 SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ Early Feminism in the Americas or the Right of Every Woman to Study 28
9. 4 RADICAL DOUBT AND THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN 62
10. PART 2 ACTIVISM ON THREE CONTINENTS Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
11. 5 SEXUAL POLITICS IN ENGLAND AND INDIA The Case of Prostitution 77
12. 6 WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Transnational Connections 98
13. PART 3 TALKING BACK TO SEXISM BEFORE “WOMEN’S LIBERATION” Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Centuries
14. 7 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE DOUDOU Sexualizing Black Female Bodies, Constructing Culture in the French Caribbean 131
15. 8 LOCATING THE FEMINIST SPIRIT IN THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES IN INDIA Tarabai Shinde and Lalithambika Antherjanam 144
16. 9 PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION AND TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISMS On Gu Ruopu and Li Ruzhen 169
17. 10 A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN IN TRANSRACIAL PERSPECTIVE 183
18. 11 SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR The Feminist Philosopher as Other 193
19. PART 4 DISCOVERING GENDER AND REMAPPING FEMINISM 1955–1975
20. 12 THE “PERSONAL POLITICS” OF CLASS 213
21. 13 FEMINISTS REIMAGINE THE BODY 231
22. 14 THE U.S. WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT AND BLACK FEMINIST “SISTERHOOD” 260
23. 15 TRIPLE JEOPARDY The Third World Women’s Alliance and the Transnational Roots of Women-of-Color Feminisms 280
24. 16 STRAINED SISTERHOOD Lesbianism, Feminism, and the U.S. Women’s Liberation Movement 292
25. 17 THE LATIN AMERICAN LESBIAN MOVEMENT Its Shaping and Its Search for Autonomy 312
26. 18 WHO IS YOUR MOTHER? Red Roots of White Feminism 321
27. 19 SUFFERING LIKE AN AFRICAN GIRL Trauma Embodied in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions 335
28. 20 THE MEANING OF SPATIAL BOUNDARIES 350
29. PART 5 BEYOND “THE DECADE OF THE WOMAN” 1975 to the Present
30. 21 MOTHERS, GUERRILLAS, AND REVOLUTIONARIES Women’s Mobilization and Activism in Latin America 379
31. 22 FEMINIST ORGANIZING AROUND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN MALI, PERU, AND INDIA 402
32. 23 FREEDOM FROM SEXISM VERSUS SEXUAL FREEDOM A Short History of the Feminist Sex Wars 430
33. 24 TWO GENERATIONS OF FEMINIST ACTIVISM Snapshots from the Middle East and North Africa since 1970 451
34. 25 MEN AND WOMEN’S STUDIES Promise, Pitfalls, and Possibility 471
35. 26 IDENTITY, ACTIVISM, AND THIRD WAVE FEMINISM IN THE UNITED STATES 501
36. 27 CAPTURED IN TRANSLATION Africa and Feminisms in the Age of Globalization 522
37. 28 GENDERING THE ARAB SPRING 530
38. CONTRIBUTORS 537
39. CREDITS 543
40. AUTHOR AND TITLE INDEX 549
41. SUBJECT INDEX 552