Susan Bordo is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. Her publications include Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body; The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private; and The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen. M. Cristina Alcalde is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is author of The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru and numerous articles on migration, gender violence, race, and masculinities. Ellen Rosenman is Provost's Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Kentucky . She is author of The Invisible Presence: Virginia Woolf and the Mother-Daughter Relationship and Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience, as well as coeditor of Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal.

• Acknowledgments Foreword: The Challenges of Constructing a Transnational History PART 1. CHALLENGING MALE DOMINANCE: ANTIQUITY TO 1800 1. Amy Richlin: Feminist Thought before the Renaissance 2. Susan Bordo: Christine de Pizan and the Querelle des femmes 3. Monica Diaz: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Early Feminism in the Americas or the Right of Every Woman to Study 4. Ruth Perry: Radical Doubt and the Liberation of Women PART 2. ACTIVISM ON THREE CONTINENTS: NINETEENTH TO EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 5. Ellen Rosenman: Sexual Politics in England and India: The Case of Prostitution 6. Ellen Rosenman, Jill Abney, and Kathi Kern: Women's Suffrage: Transnational Connections PART 3. TALKING BACK TO SEXISM BEFORE "WOMEN'S LIBERATION": NINETEENTH TO MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY 7. Jacqueline Couti: The Mythology of the Doudou: Sexualizing Black Female Bodies, Constructing Culture in the French Caribbean 8. Pramila Venkateswaran: Locating the Feminist Spirit in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries in India: Tarabai Shinde and Lalitambika Antarjanam 9. Liang Luo: Problems of Translation and Transnational Feminisms: On Gu Ruopu and Li Ruzhen 10. Ellen Rosenman, A Room of One's Own in Transracial Perspective 11. Susan Bordo: Simone de Beauvoir: The Feminist Philosopher as Other PART 4. DISCOVERING GENDER AND REMAPPING FEMINISM: 1955--1975 12. Karen W. Tice: The "Personal Politics" of Class 13. Susan Bordo: Feminists Reimagine the Body 14. Cheryl R. Hopson: The U.S. Women's Liberation Movement and Black Feminist "Sisterhood" 15. Maylei Blackwell: Triple Jeopardy: The Third World Women's Alliance and the Transnational Roots of Women-of-Color Feminisms 16. Ann M. Ciasullo: Strained Sisterhood: Lesbianism, Feminism, and the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement 17. Norma Mogrovejo: The Latin American Lesbian Movement: Its Shaping and its Search for Autonomy 18. Paula Gunn Allen: Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism 19. Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant: Suffering Like an African Girl: Trauma Embodied in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions 20. Fatima Mernissi: The Meaning of Spatial Boundaries PART 5. BEYOND "THE DECADE OF THE WOMAN": 1975 TO THE PRESENT 21. M. Cristina Alcalde: Mothers, Guerrillas, and Revolutionaries: Women's Mobilization and Activism in Latin America 22. M. Cristina Alcalde, Srimati Basu, and Emily Burrill: Feminist Organizing around Violence against Women in Mali, Peru, and India? 23. Bernadette Barton: Freedom from Sexism versus Sexual Freedom: A Short History of the Feminist Sex Wars 24. Diane E. King: Two Generations of Feminist Activism: Snapshots from the Middle East and North Africa since 1970 25. Michael Kimmel: Men and Women's Studies: Promise, Pitfalls, and Possibility 26. Ashley Bourgeois: Identity, Activism, and Third Wave Feminism in the United States 27. Obioma Nnaemeka: Captured in Translation: Africa and Feminisms in the Age of Globalization 28. Nadje Al-Ali: Gendering the Arab Spring List of Contributors List of Credits Index

"A stimulating new collection ... I am glad to have read this volume... The book will occupy a place of distinction on my office shelf." -- Valerie M. Hudson H-Diplo

Susan Bordo is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. Her publications include Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body; The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private; and The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen. M. Cristina Alcalde is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is author of The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru and numerous articles on migration, gender violence, race, and masculinities. Ellen Rosenman is Provost's Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Kentucky . She is author of The Invisible Presence: Virginia Woolf and the Mother-Daughter Relationship and Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience, as well as coeditor of Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal.

• Acknowledgments Foreword: The Challenges of Constructing a Transnational History PART 1. CHALLENGING MALE DOMINANCE: ANTIQUITY TO 1800 1. Amy Richlin: Feminist Thought before the Renaissance 2. Susan Bordo: Christine de Pizan and the Querelle des femmes 3. Monica Diaz: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Early Feminism in the Americas or the Right of Every Woman to Study 4. Ruth Perry: Radical Doubt and the Liberation of Women PART 2. ACTIVISM ON THREE CONTINENTS: NINETEENTH TO EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 5. Ellen Rosenman: Sexual Politics in England and India: The Case of Prostitution 6. Ellen Rosenman, Jill Abney, and Kathi Kern: Women's Suffrage: Transnational Connections PART 3. TALKING BACK TO SEXISM BEFORE "WOMEN'S LIBERATION": NINETEENTH TO MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY 7. Jacqueline Couti: The Mythology of the Doudou: Sexualizing Black Female Bodies, Constructing Culture in the French Caribbean 8. Pramila Venkateswaran: Locating the Feminist Spirit in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries in India: Tarabai Shinde and Lalitambika Antarjanam 9. Liang Luo: Problems of Translation and Transnational Feminisms: On Gu Ruopu and Li Ruzhen 10. Ellen Rosenman, A Room of One's Own in Transracial Perspective 11. Susan Bordo: Simone de Beauvoir: The Feminist Philosopher as Other PART 4. DISCOVERING GENDER AND REMAPPING FEMINISM: 1955--1975 12. Karen W. Tice: The "Personal Politics" of Class 13. Susan Bordo: Feminists Reimagine the Body 14. Cheryl R. Hopson: The U.S. Women's Liberation Movement and Black Feminist "Sisterhood" 15. Maylei Blackwell: Triple Jeopardy: The Third World Women's Alliance and the Transnational Roots of Women-of-Color Feminisms 16. Ann M. Ciasullo: Strained Sisterhood: Lesbianism, Feminism, and the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement 17. Norma Mogrovejo: The Latin American Lesbian Movement: Its Shaping and its Search for Autonomy 18. Paula Gunn Allen: Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism 19. Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant: Suffering Like an African Girl: Trauma Embodied in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions 20. Fatima Mernissi: The Meaning of Spatial Boundaries PART 5. BEYOND "THE DECADE OF THE WOMAN": 1975 TO THE PRESENT 21. M. Cristina Alcalde: Mothers, Guerrillas, and Revolutionaries: Women's Mobilization and Activism in Latin America 22. M. Cristina Alcalde, Srimati Basu, and Emily Burrill: Feminist Organizing around Violence against Women in Mali, Peru, and India? 23. Bernadette Barton: Freedom from Sexism versus Sexual Freedom: A Short History of the Feminist Sex Wars 24. Diane E. King: Two Generations of Feminist Activism: Snapshots from the Middle East and North Africa since 1970 25. Michael Kimmel: Men and Women's Studies: Promise, Pitfalls, and Possibility 26. Ashley Bourgeois: Identity, Activism, and Third Wave Feminism in the United States 27. Obioma Nnaemeka: Captured in Translation: Africa and Feminisms in the Age of Globalization 28. Nadje Al-Ali: Gendering the Arab Spring List of Contributors List of Credits Index

"A stimulating new collection ... I am glad to have read this volume... The book will occupy a place of distinction on my office shelf." -- Valerie M. Hudson H-Diplo

Susan Bordo is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. Her publications include Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body; The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private; and The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen. M. Cristina Alcalde is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is author of The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru and numerous articles on migration, gender violence, race, and masculinities. Ellen Rosenman is Provost's Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Kentucky . She is author of The Invisible Presence: Virginia Woolf and the Mother-Daughter Relationship and Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience, as well as coeditor of Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal.

• Acknowledgments Foreword: The Challenges of Constructing a Transnational History PART 1. CHALLENGING MALE DOMINANCE: ANTIQUITY TO 1800 1. Amy Richlin: Feminist Thought before the Renaissance 2. Susan Bordo: Christine de Pizan and the Querelle des femmes 3. Monica Diaz: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Early Feminism in the Americas or the Right of Every Woman to Study 4. Ruth Perry: Radical Doubt and the Liberation of Women PART 2. ACTIVISM ON THREE CONTINENTS: NINETEENTH TO EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 5. Ellen Rosenman: Sexual Politics in England and India: The Case of Prostitution 6. Ellen Rosenman, Jill Abney, and Kathi Kern: Women's Suffrage: Transnational Connections PART 3. TALKING BACK TO SEXISM BEFORE "WOMEN'S LIBERATION": NINETEENTH TO MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY 7. Jacqueline Couti: The Mythology of the Doudou: Sexualizing Black Female Bodies, Constructing Culture in the French Caribbean 8. Pramila Venkateswaran: Locating the Feminist Spirit in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries in India: Tarabai Shinde and Lalitambika Antarjanam 9. Liang Luo: Problems of Translation and Transnational Feminisms: On Gu Ruopu and Li Ruzhen 10. Ellen Rosenman, A Room of One's Own in Transracial Perspective 11. Susan Bordo: Simone de Beauvoir: The Feminist Philosopher as Other PART 4. DISCOVERING GENDER AND REMAPPING FEMINISM: 1955--1975 12. Karen W. Tice: The "Personal Politics" of Class 13. Susan Bordo: Feminists Reimagine the Body 14. Cheryl R. Hopson: The U.S. Women's Liberation Movement and Black Feminist "Sisterhood" 15. Maylei Blackwell: Triple Jeopardy: The Third World Women's Alliance and the Transnational Roots of Women-of-Color Feminisms 16. Ann M. Ciasullo: Strained Sisterhood: Lesbianism, Feminism, and the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement 17. Norma Mogrovejo: The Latin American Lesbian Movement: Its Shaping and its Search for Autonomy 18. Paula Gunn Allen: Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism 19. Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant: Suffering Like an African Girl: Trauma Embodied in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions 20. Fatima Mernissi: The Meaning of Spatial Boundaries PART 5. BEYOND "THE DECADE OF THE WOMAN": 1975 TO THE PRESENT 21. M. Cristina Alcalde: Mothers, Guerrillas, and Revolutionaries: Women's Mobilization and Activism in Latin America 22. M. Cristina Alcalde, Srimati Basu, and Emily Burrill: Feminist Organizing around Violence against Women in Mali, Peru, and India? 23. Bernadette Barton: Freedom from Sexism versus Sexual Freedom: A Short History of the Feminist Sex Wars 24. Diane E. King: Two Generations of Feminist Activism: Snapshots from the Middle East and North Africa since 1970 25. Michael Kimmel: Men and Women's Studies: Promise, Pitfalls, and Possibility 26. Ashley Bourgeois: Identity, Activism, and Third Wave Feminism in the United States 27. Obioma Nnaemeka: Captured in Translation: Africa and Feminisms in the Age of Globalization 28. Nadje Al-Ali: Gendering the Arab Spring List of Contributors List of Credits Index

"A stimulating new collection ... I am glad to have read this volume... The book will occupy a place of distinction on my office shelf." -- Valerie M. Hudson H-Diplo