Friday, August 9, 2013

Moghadam (2000), "Transnational Feminist Networks: Collective Action in an Era of Globalization"

1. Transnational feminist networks (TFNs) link together the local with the global. They move discourse across national lines to link individuals and organizations into poewrful collectives.

Moghadam (2000) discusses transnational feminist networks (TFNs) as a result of an increased focus on supranational issues within feminist movements. Through TFNs, women can organize locally while sharing information and joining in collective political lobbying and action as a global collective. Moghadam (2000) imagines these networks as a web, noting that a local organization may collectively tap into one TFN while simultaneously having members involved in other TFNs.

2. Global feminism is both local and global. The two levels of organization work together to create broad policy change.

Moghadam (2000) defines "global feminism" as discourses that move across national boundaries to increase women's access to resources and legal steps toward gender equality. "Global feminism" comes from the idea that there are common forms of disadvantage and feminist organizing across the world.

3. Moghadam (2000) mentions several specific TFNs. DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) works toward a people-centered socio-economic model that stretches between microeconomics of the local and the individual home and macroeconomics of the state. WIDE (Network Women in Development Europe) is a network of twelve national platforms, each of which includes one or more women's groups. WIDE critiques distribution of aid throughout Europe.

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