Engendering Transnational Movements/Transnationalizing Women's and Feminist Movements in the Americas

Abstract

Globalization not only meant increasing flows of goods, services, capital, and more but also set the stage for increasing cross‐border organizing and transnational (social) movements, and changing modes of resistance. This article analyzes how women's and feminist movements in the region have “transnationalized” in response to the multiple and often contradictory processes of globalization and also looks at the gendered dimensions of transnational movements, including transnational migrant networks. The central question to be addressed is, to what extent does “gender” play a role in how people and groups organize? Are there gendered differences in agenda setting, selection of resistance, or mobilization strategies of transnational social movements, and what are the implications of such differences?