From Global Feminism to Transnational Feminism——Concurrently on the Knowledge Output of Transnational Feminism

Abstract

Currently, globalization is breaking through the borders of nations with the momentum of an avalanche and fastly rewriting the definition of place, state and region. In respect of women, the progress of globalization on the one hand rapidly uplifts the transnational women's problems such as women's impoverishment, the increase of female immigrants, etc. On the other hand, it boosts the link-up of women's movement worldwide, for example the UN World Conference on Women, the transnational NGO women's organization, and the internet. To define these new globalization developments and push women's movement forward on the global scale, the concepts of "global feminism" and "transnational feminism" cropped up one after the other in the later stage of the 20th century. This essay examines the characteristics of the knowledge output process of transnational feminism, beginning with the successive UN World Conferences on Women after the 1970s, coupled with an analysis of the global feminist idea of global sisterhood and an introduction to the theory and practice of transnational feminism.