Gender and the Politics of Possibilities

Manisha Desai is director of women's studies and associate professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Cross Border TradersChapter 3 Transnational FeministsChapter 4 ModemmujersChapter 5 Conlcusion

Gender and the Politics of Possibilities stresses the agency of actors within a globalized world, and hence emphasizes the capacities – or in Desai's own words, 'possibilities” and “creativity – of African informal cross-border traders, transnational feminists, and cultural producers.