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Keynote Speakers

Kum Kum Bhavnani - "Shaping Transnational Feminisms, Shifting Development"

Ester Hernandez - "Translucent Borders: The Art of Ester Hernandez"

Orit Bashkin - "Global Feminism in Iraq, 1921-1958"

Fall 2007

Recommended Colloquium Bibliography

Alvarez, Sonia. "Latin American Feminism 'Go Global': Trends of the 1990's and Challenges for the New Millennium". Culture of Politics/ Politics of cultures: Revisioning Latin American Social Movements. Sonia Alvarez, Evelina Dagnino and Arturo Escobar, eds. Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1998.

Barlow, Tani. The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.

Briggs, Laura. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Brown, Wendy. "The Impossibility of Women’s Studies". Differences 9.3 (1997): 79–101.

Feree, Mira and Aili Trip, Eds.Global Feminism: Transnational Women’s Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

Hershatter, Gail. Women in China's Long Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Gender & Society 19.2 (April 2005) is a special issue on Gender-Sexuality-State-Nation: Transnational feminist analysis.

Gosh, Bishnupriya and Brinda Brose, eds. Interventions: Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women's Literature and Film. New York: Garland, 1997.

Grewal, Inderpal. Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

Grewal, Inderpal, and Caren Kaplan. An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World. New York: McGraw Hill, 2002.

---. Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Hauser, Eva. "Mind the Gap! Women from Post-Communist Countries: Conservatism or Progressivism?". Women: a Cultural Review 3.3 (1992): 238-243.

Kaplan, Caren, Norma Alarcón, and Minoo Moallem. "Introduction". Between Women and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State. Durham: Duke UP, 1999. 1-15.

Kim-Puri, H.J. "Conceptualizing Gender-Sexuality-State-Nation: An Introduction." Gender and Society 19 (2005):137-159.

Ko, Dorothy and Zheng Wang eds. Translating Feminisms in China. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

Lazreg, Marnia. "The Triumphant Discourse of Global Feminism: Should Other Women Be Known". Going Global: Transnational Reception of Third World Women. Eds. Amal Amireh and Suhayr Majaj. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Marciniak, Katarzyna, Aniko Imre and Aine O'Healy. Transnational Feminism in Film and Media. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Miller, Francesca. "National Liberation, Redemocratization, and International Feminism, 1974-1990". Latin America Women and Social Justice. Ed. Francesca Miller. Hanover: New England University Press, 1991. 187-237

Moghadam, Valentine. Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Mohantry, Chandra. Feminisim without Borders Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

---. "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses". Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. ed. Chandra Mohanty, Ann Russo and Lourdes Torres. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991.

---. "'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28.2 (2003): 499-535.

Narayan, Uma. Dislocating Cultures: Third World Feminism and the Politics of Knowledge. London: Routledge, 1997.

Oyewumi, Oyeronke. "Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects". African Gender Studies. Ed. Oyeronke Oyewumi. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. 3-21.

Radhakrishan, Smitha "Time to Show Our True Colors: The Gendered Politics of 'Indianness' in Post-Apartheid South Africa" Gender & Society 19.2 (2005), p. 262.

Sandoval, Chela. "U.S. Third World Feminism: Differential Social Movement". Methodology of the Oppressed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 41-66.

Shohat, Ella ed. Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

Šiklová, Jirina. "Are Women in Central and Eastern Europe Conservative?". Gender Politics and Post-Communism: Reflections from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Eds. Nanette Funk and Magda Mueller. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Thayer, Millie. "Transnational Feminism: Reading Joan Scott in the Brazilian Sertao". Ethnography 2 (2001): 243-71.

Tripp, Aili, "Challenges in Transnational Feminisms".Global Feminism: Transnational Women’s Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights. Eds. Mira Ferree and Aili Tripp. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

Vesínová-Kalivodová, Eva. "Czech Society in-between the Waves". European Journal of Women's Studies 12: 421.

Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui. Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Zinn, Maxine Baca and Bonnie Thornton Dill. "Theorizing Difference From Multiracial Feminism." Feminist Studies. 22.2 (1996): 321-331.

Recommended Filmography

Afghanistan Unveiled. director, Brigitte Brault. New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, c2003.

Door to the Sky. director, Farida Ben Lyzaid. Seattle, WA: Arab Film Distribution, 1997.

Flame. director, Ingrid Sinclair. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1996.

Shape of Water. director, Kum-Kum Bhavnani. California : Kum-Kum Bhavnani, c2006.

Song of the Exile. director, Ann Hui. New York, NY: Distributed by Kino International Corporation, 1991.

Spirit of Annie Mae. director, Catherine Anne Martin. New York, NY: National Film Board of Canada, 2002.

Through Chinese Women's Eyes. director, Mayfair Yang. New York, NY: Distributed by Women Make Movies, 1997.

Transnational Tradeswomen. director, Vivian Price. New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, 2006.

Women of Change. directors, Joan Prowse and John Bessai. Toronto, ON: Cine Focus Canada Productions, 1999.

Recommended Websites

Collective Voices (SisterSong, women of color) : [http://www.sistersong.net/newspaper.html]

Feminist Africa: [http://www.feministafrica.org/]

Feminista!: the Journal of Feminist Construction: [http://www.feminista.com/issues/front.php]

FemTAP: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Practice: [http://www.femtap.com/]

Genderstats: Database of Gender Statistics: [http://devdata.worldbank.org/]

Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World: [http://www.giftsofspeech.org/]

Global Feminisms Project: Comparative Case Studies of Women's Activism and Scholarship, University of Michigan: [http://www.umich.edu/%7Eglblfem/]

Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review: [http://emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/recent/main.html]

International Archives of the Women's Movement (the IIAV): [http://www.iiav.nl/online-periodicals/]

IIAV e-archives: [http://www.iiav.nl/online-articles/]

JOFA: Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (newsletter): [http://www.jofa.org/about.php/publications/jofajournal]

Literary Moma: A Literary Magazine for the Maternally Inclined: [http://www.literarymama.com/]

Montclair State University Harry A. Sprague Library Women's Studies Resources: [http://frontpage.montclair.edu/cooken/womens%20studies.pdf]

Montclair State University Women's Studies Internet Resources:[http://library.montclair.edu/Guides/reference/womenstudies2.html]

New York Public Library Women's Studies: A Guide to the Collections: [http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/women/index.html]

Nineteenth Century Gender Studies: [http://www.ncgsjournal.com/]

On Campus With Women (newsletter of the AAC&C): [http://www.aacu.org/ocww/]

Oxfam GB's gender newsletter: [http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/gender/links/]

Research News Reporter (newsletter of the Institute for Women's Policy Research): [http://www.iwpr.org/rnr/rnr.htm]

Trivia: Voices of Feminism: [http://www.triviavoices.net/]

W.A.M.M.: Women Against Military Madness (newsletter): [http://www.worldwidewamm.org/newsletters/newsletter.html]

Women in Natural Resources: [http://www.cnr.uidaho.edu/winr/]

Women of Color Websites: [http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_wc.html]

Women of Various Countries, Ethnicities, Races, and Other Group Identities: [http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/woc.htm] this site is no longer maitained so links may degrade, however it remains a valuable resource as of 9/07

Women Watch: [http://www.un.org/womenwatch/]

Women's Health in Primary Care: [http://www.womenshealthpc.com/home.html]

Womens Studies Database: [http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/]

Conference Organizers:

at Denison University

Bernadita Llanos
llanos@denison.edu
Professor of Spanish and Women's Studies

Joanna Mitchel
mitchellj@denison.edu
Assistant Professor Spanish

at Hope College

Maria Claudia Andre
andre@hope.edu
Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies

Annie Dandavati
dandavati@hope.edu
Professor of Political Science and Director of Women's Studies

at Kenyon College

Laurie Finke
finkel@kenyon.edu
Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Director of Women's Studies

Clara Roman-Odio
romanodioc@kenyon.edu
Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature

Marta Sierra
sierram@kenyon.edu
Professor of Spanish
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature

Library Liaisons at Kenyon College:

Karen Greever
greeverk@kenyon.edu
Collection Development Librarian

Carmen King
king@kenyon.edu
Fine Arts Librarian