Trans/Feminist Methodology: Bridges to Interdisciplinary Thinking

After analyzing the relationship between critical interdisciplinarity and expanding the potential for cross-cultural insight in Women's Studies (NWSA Journal, Spring 1998), I wanted to explore further some questions concerning methodology: how does Women's Studies cross disciplinary borders in order to construct ways of thinking in feminist analytic terms; might Women's Studies develop an interdisciplinary methodology of its own; and from what base in feminist theory might we do so. In the article that follows, I build on the work of Israeli feminist theorist Nira Yuval-Davis to construct a model for feminist interdisciplinary thinking based on transversalism.