ISD1: Feminists Without Borders

Collaborative Goals

The working group wants to transcend 1) disciplinary boundaries, 2) regional and national borders and 3) the scholarship-activism divide. The goal of this group is to combine resources and expertise of the members, and to come up with creative and effective ways to study and address gender inequality in a global context and also in relation to other systems of oppression that intersect with it. We intend to provide an intersectional feminist lens to humanistic scholarship beyond gender studies. As the reality of globalization makes it imperative to understand the local and the global, the group will utilize the localized knowledge of its members and their network as an entry point of understanding the global experience of exclusion and marginalization. While we start with the idea of “feminists without borders,” we also welcome those who conduct gender studies and activism related to gender issues in general. We are aware of existing working groups that also research gender-related issues. This working group, however, pays special attention to fostering connections between scholarship and activism in research as well as in education.