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" What is new is the advent of women in leadership positions and political office who have incorporated women issues into their programs which offers new hope and presents new possibilities. Just as British women felt their country was full of freedom even though they did not have the right to vote there are cultures in the world that freedom within that specific society would be prison within another in the view of women.
In order for feminism to become transnational the elite women in the richer countries must be able to consider and conceive the plight of the rural women in a third world country and as well all within the feminist movement must be able within their own consciousness to cross a deep chasm in order to comprehend women of other nations and cultures as to what their specific needs might be, even though those may be very different from their own. (2001) Transnational Feminist Practices Against War Online available at http://www.geocities.com/carenkaplan03/transnationalstatement.html.
References
Brenner, Johanna (2003) Transnational Feminism and The Struggle for Global Justice [from New Politics, vol.9 no.2 whole 34, winter 2003) Online available at http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue34/brenne34.htm.
Kone, Kassin (2005) Women's Transnational Identities in a Global World: A Journal of Transnational Women & Gender Studies- Wag.a.du Summer 2005 Online available at http://web.cortland.edu/wagadu/issue2/kone.html.
Transnational Feminism
References
Brenner, Johanna (2003) Transnational Feminism and The Struggle for Global Justice [from New Politics, vol.9 no.2 whole 34, winter 2003) Online available at http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue34/brenne34.htm.
Grewal, Inderpal & Kaplan, Caren (2000) Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Feminist Practices San Franciso State University and University of California Berkley Online available at http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v5i1/grewal.htm.
Moghadam, Val (2005) Transnational Feminism and Afghan Women's Rights Rubrique: Femmes & Mondalisation Online available at http://www.peuplesmonde.com/article.php3?id_article=269.
Moghadam, Val (2004) From International to Transnational Organization: A Century's Feminist Journey- Against the Current Online available at http://www.solidarity-us.org/atc/109moghadam.html.
Bachetta, et al. (2001) Transnational Feminist Practices Against War Online available at http://www.geocities.com/carenkaplan03/transnationalstatement.html.
Kone, Kassin (2005) Women's Transnational Identities in a Global World: A Journal of Transnational Women & Gender Studies- Wag.a.du Summer 2005 Online available at http://web.cortland.edu/wagadu/issue2/kone.html.
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