Transnational Feminism in the United States: Knowledge, Ethics, Power

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235 Abortion, 50, 129–30 Abu Ghraib prison, 48, 51 Abu-Lughod, Lila, 25 Academic programs. See Universities and colleges, U.S. Activism: as global, 38, 42; for human rights, 54; by transnational feminists, 14, 20–22, 102, 157–58, 174; for women’s rights, 34, 36–40, 102, 203n6, 204n19. See also Ethics; Feminists of color; Research and scholarship Adoption, as transnational, 64 Affective economy, 25, 63–65, 67, 72, 80, 99 Afghanistan, 3, 32, 36, 38, 40, 43, 45, 54, 57, 143, 193 Africa, 5, 15, 99–100 Agency, of women, 14, 103, 117, 133 Agential realism, 106–7, 120, 125, 130 Ahmed, Sara, 25, 63–64 Aikau, Hokulani, 169 Ajayi-Soyanki, Omofolabo, 218n55 Alarcon, Norma, 171–72, 216n21 Alexander, Jacqui, 13, 132, 161, 163, 167, 175–76, 215n6 Alexander-Floyd, Nikol, 187 American Political Science Association, 143 Anderson, Benedict, 191, 210n8 Anthropology, 34, 66, 73, 89, 143–45, 150, 158 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 105–7, 157, 173, 183–85, 216n20, 216n28 Appadurai, Arjun, 7–8, 10 Ashtiani, Sakineh Mohammadi, 20–21 Authenticity, 62–63, 70, 73, 75–78, 85–86, 89, 91, 176 Al-Awlaki, 57, 206n70 Bachchan, Amitabh, 86 Bandit Queen (film), 68–75, 77, 81–84, 86–88, 90, 101, 118, 208n54, 208nn49–51 Barad, Karen, 28, 105–7, 119–20, 130–31, 180 Basu, Amrita, 33 de Beauvoir, Simone, 184 bell hooks, 173 “Between Neoliberal Globalization” (Toor), 206n69 Bishop, Ryan, 109 Bohr, Niels, 106–7, 120 Bollywood industry, 61, 86 Bolter, Jay, 76 Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (Lewis), 100 Border-crossing: as cultural, 108; effects of, 124, 191; globalization and, 2, 199n4; politics of, 108, 110; relevance of, 122; as socioeconomic, 108, 114; stereotypes of, 111; territorialization and, 7–8, 103–4; third wave feminism and, 28, 31, 157–58, 170–73, 216n28; transnational feminism and, 14, 105–8, 110–11, 114–15, 123; violence in, 106, 111, 185, 196; as visible, 30, 104, 108, 122 Borderlands (Anzaldúa), 106, 183 Boundaries: of civilian space, 37–38, 44–48, 52, 57–59, 144, 204n23, 205n40; for state, 37; of Third World, 71, 73–74, 207n34; war on terror and, 39, 44, 59; for women’s studies, 148. See also Affective economy Bourdieu, Pierre, 196, 202n74 Boxer, Barbara, 32 Boyle, Danny, 79–80 Index 236 Index Boyle, Robert, 128 Brazil, 101, 114 Breckenridge, Carol A., 10 Brown, Wendy, 148, 150, 159 Bush, George W., 29, 32, 39, 41, 46, 54, 56, 203n2 Butler, Judith, 45, 149, 155, 172 Calhoun, Craig, 143–44 Call centers, 75, 78, 109, 112, 114, 120 “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (Spivak), 29, 62, 78 Capital: circulation of, 2, 11, 24, 63–64, 72, 102, 122, 182, 186; value of, 105–6 Das Capital (Marx), 63 Capitalism, global, 13, 63, 105–6 Care chains, 109 Catholic Church, 43 Chatterjee, Partha, 7 Chechnya, 58 China, 3, 11, 73, 78, 101, 114 Chow, Rey, 73, 193, 207n33 Chuh, Kandice, 5 Citationality, politics of, 125, 211n43 “Class, Space and the State” (Fernandes), 206n72 Clinton, Hillary, 32, 203nn1–2, 217n35 Cold War, 2, 6, 124, 143, 154, 160, 199n3 Cole, Juan, 57 Colleges. See Universities and colleges, U.S. Collins, Patricia Hill, 177–78, 186–87 Colonialism: context in, 125, 209n94; ethics and, 29; gender and, 1, 36–37; as historical, 101, 104, 111, 125, 142, 182, 209n94; inequalities in, 69; justification of, 43; mapmaking for, 121; missionary impulse in, 20; power in, 70, 121; relationships under, 73, 121, 207n33; stereotypes of, 21; transnational processes and, 13, 24, 215n1; women under, 32, 36–37, 72. See also India; United States Consumption: of cultural production, 69; of ethnographic materials, 119; research on, 114, 126; subjectivity of, 114 Context: as biased, 112, 114; in colonialism, 125, 209n94; complexity of, 33; as cultural , 99, 133, 196; for cultural production , 68, 99; of employment, 114; ethics in, 131; gender in, 27; for globalization, 4, 108; for knowledge production, 105, 117, 125, 135; of location, 11, 115; as political , 11, 197; power in, 30; of representation , 4, 34, 68, 118; social welfare as, 114; for transnationalism, 99; women’s issues in, 27, 111, 123. See also Third wave feminism Corporations, transnational: as cultural industry, 61; export processing zones for, 13, 27, 108–10, 114; international organizations and, 108–10; intervention for, 3, 113, 199n8; power of, 102 Cosmopolitanism, 5, 199n10 Coulter, Ann, 46 Crenshaw, Kimberlé, 177, 182–83 Cultural production: affective economy and, 64, 67, 80, 99; audience for, 99; authenticity of, 63; circulation of, 99; collaboration for...