Global feminism is not merely expanding feminist knowledge, it is altering feminist theories and reshaping what feminism means around the world. This issue of Feminist Studies illustrates the new global scholarship on women and gender, with essays drawing on activism in several regions, including Mexico, Israel, and Colombia. Full of hope regarding the possibilities of women’s local and transnational organizing, the essays also confront a gloomy present international picture where, according to Marilyn Porter’s review essay on “Transnational Feminisms in a Globalized World,” “the global situation for women is changing, mostly for the worse,” even as feminist organizations join forces to respond to this deteriorating situation. One of the most significant developments in this effort, Porter claims, is the supplementation of the “individualism of a human rights approach based in Northern liberal philosophy” by the recognition of collective rights and the claims of “culture” espoused more frequently by feminists from the South.

Worsening conditions for women, combined with increased and more specifically targeted women’s activism, lead to the complex debates between “cultural” rights and state-based development imperatives described in Kiran Asher’s essay, “Black Women’s Activism, Development, and Ethnicity in the Pacific Lowlands of Colombia.”

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Preface
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Kiran Asher
Ser y Tener: Black Women’s Activism, Development,
and Ethnicity in the Pacific Lowlands of Colombia
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Adela Najarro
Considering Words; Mockingbird (Poetry)
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L.K. Holt
Self-Portrait with Red Bird (Poetry)
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Marilyn Porter
Transnational Feminisms in a Globalized World:
Challenges, Analysis, and Resistance
(Review Essay)
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Michelle Rowley
Feminist Visions for Women in a New Era:
An Interview with Peggy Antrobus 
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Amy Swerdlow
Ella Tulin: Fully Empowered
(Art Essay)
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Electa Arenal
Women in the Oaxaca Teachers’ Strike
and Citizens’ Uprising
(News and Views)
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Landon R.Y. Storrs
Attacking the Washington “Femmocracy”:
Antifeminism in the Cold War Campaign against
“Communists in Government”
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Jana Harris
Considering Her Answer to a Letter Sent by an Emigrant, Addressed Catherine Sager, Somewhere in Oregon;
The Gift of Granny Wintersteen (Poetry)
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Sarab Abu-Rabia Queder
Permission to Rebel: Arab Bedouin Women’s Changing Negotiation of Social Roles
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Margaret K. Willard-Traub
Scholarly Autobiography:
An Alternative Intellectual Practice
(Review Essay)
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Meryl Altman
Simone de Beauvoir and Lesbian Lived Experience
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Notes on Contributors
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Guidelines for Contributors
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Publications Received
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Front and Back Cover
Ella Tulin, Room at the Top, 1990.
Bronze on granite base. 29h x 22w x 8d inches.

Images and photographs used
by permission of Nick Mosey.