This open access book explores the transnational variations of feminism as informed by the diverse historical, cultural, political and geographical conjunctures. The volume covers a diverse range of media and literary genres including poetry, fan fiction, print media such as newspapers and children’s magazines, and various digital media including social media, video sharing platforms, and instant messengers. It foregrounds sites and contexts of transnational connectivity outside of the global political and economic centers of the Global West. It brings transnational feminist activism into dialogue with historical analysis of gender equality within diverse political and cultural domains, while offering conceptual tools for detecting and analyzing epistemological gaps, absences and silences. By bringing together these empirical, historical, and methodological viewpoints, the volume offers an up-to-date reflection of ‘transnational feminism’ as a category essential for contemporary scholarship on social movements and global media. It will be of interest to researchers and students in gender studies, the communication sciences, cultural and literary studies, history, and sociology, as well as media practitioners, NGO and policy makers, and other organizations dealing with gender equality.
Saara Ratilainen is Senior Lecturer in Russian Language and Culture at Tampere University, Finland.Galina Miazhevich is Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media, and Culture at Cardiff University, UK.Daniil Zhaivoronok is a Ph.D. student in Russian language and culture at Tampere University, Finland.
Ch 1: Mediated Transnational Feminism: Activist Practices, Histories, New Research Approaches (An Introduction).- Ch 2: From Global to Local to Glocal – Transnational Feminist Movements: The News Coverage of #MeToo in Portugal.- Ch 3: ‘Your issues are different from those raised here.’ Exploring Silences and Absences in Sexual Violence Campaigns in India.- Ch 4: From Linguistic Deficiency to Discursive Explosion: Anti-Racist and De-colonial Feminisms Rediscover Russian Empire(s).- Ch 5: Experiences and Perceptions of Doing Digital Feminist Activism under Authoritarian Conditions of Turkey.- Ch 6: The Politics of Transnational Solidarity Among Exiled Russian-Speaking LGBTIQ+ NGOs.- Ch 7: Russian Feminist Poetry: Combining the Global with the Local.- Ch 8: ‘Making sense of what does not make sense’: A Digitally Mediated Autoethnography of Activism Against Gender-Based-Violence.- Ch 9: Recruiting Strategies on Social Media: Gendered Biographies and Empowerment Narratives of Network Marketing Professionals.- Ch 10: A Robot-Assisted, Photosensitive Reading of White Women in Harry Potter Fanfiction.- Ch 11: Murzilka's Military Women: The Representation of Servicewomen in the Soviet Children’s Magazine Murzilka 1956–1964.- Ch 12: British Press Representations of Nordic Women Politicians 1900 – 1939.