'Transnationalism reversed': Engaging religion, development and women's organizing in Bangladesh
EH Chowdhury - Women's Studies International Forum, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper situates women's activism in Bangladesh within the intersecting forces of rising
religious extremism, transnational feminism, and global capitalist development. My work
here seeks to illuminate intra-movement tensions in the context of women's organizing in
Bangladesh to theorize and imagine feminist alliances that are more equitable and just
across borders of nation, class and community. At once complicit and transformative, I look
at the contradictory spaces women's groups are carving out within multiple constraining …
religious extremism, transnational feminism, and global capitalist development. My work
here seeks to illuminate intra-movement tensions in the context of women's organizing in
Bangladesh to theorize and imagine feminist alliances that are more equitable and just
across borders of nation, class and community. At once complicit and transformative, I look
at the contradictory spaces women's groups are carving out within multiple constraining …