Women's Time, Women's Space: Reflections on the International Network of Women's Studies Journals Workshop, September 6-12, 2001

This article reflects on how globalization affects and transforms the issues of writing relevant to feminist journals. Taking its point of departure in a recent international women's studies journals workshop, the article examines the issues of feminist journal writing and publishing from two perspectives: the global perspective of networking, and the local, Nordic perspective of feminist politics and writing belonging to the author. Using Julia Kristeva's idea of feminist generations as signifying spaces for the understanding of "woman," the article argues that the regenerative power of Women's Studies and feminist writing will arise from the diversity and inclusiveness of the women's movement itself. In the global context of feminist networking the generational differences in terms of e.g., the struggle for political rights or for academic recognition will be negotiated and brought to coexist. In this process journal writing can play a central part if it opens up to the diversity of creative, activist and academic writing.