Transnational Feminisms have emerged out of the need for women’s groups to address oppression that crosses national borders and to build solidarities rooted in an exploration of the articulation between the local and the global. These forms of feminisms examine the ways in which women’s groups transcend location beyond national boundaries to address their political and ideological struggles, exploring the interrelationships between discrete factors such as caste, class, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, age, and multiple other positionalities and contexts of inequalities as they overlap and are shaped by neoliberal economic and political forces, patriarchies and various other systems of stratification. Transnational feminisms have contributed to the intricate interplay of these contingent factors in shaping the trajectories of women’s social movement organizing. As an emerging paradigm for decolonizing forms of research, transnational feminisms have also given way to newer forms of representations resulting in various accounts of resistance, collaboration and activism. With the expansion of free markets and the impacts of various forms of globalization feminist thought is reinterpretating theories and praxes of transnational feminisms.

Increasing “flows of people, things, images, and ideas across the borders of nation-states in an era of ‘globalization’” (Conway, 2019) needs to take into consideration the wide variety of women’s experiences and how they live within, between, and at the margins or boundaries of nation-states around the globe (Enns, Comas-Díaz, Bryant-Davis, 2020). Transnational circulation of discourses on gendered globalization reflects multilayered power dynamics and contestations, embedded in mediated practices such as in the influence of gender issues in transnational media studies, intersecting with political contexts.

Yet, and there is a noticeable silence on multidisciplinary approaches to cross-cultural dimensions of engagement and solidarity emerging from transnational feminist engagements. Moving away from the mechanisms of nation-state centered analysis to transnational feminist perspectives and practices, new methodological and epistemological articulations in academic spaces are now being directed towards interrogating the uniqueness of experiences beyond the locational politics of center periphery intersection and acknowledging “differences in women’s lives as well as links between transnational power structures” (Grewal and Kaplan, 1994, pp. 26-7). Grewal and Kaplan also emphasized the necessity of engaging with postmodernity, marked by the decentralization of power, subjectivity, meanings and narratives. In this context, an intersectional approach is crucial in critiquing hegemonic ideologies and emphasizing that feminisms and inequalities do not emerge or engage in a linear fashion. In this connection Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s work (2003) is significant as it focusses on inclusive visions of feminism which attempt to transcend borders by fostering change and social justice. Her work also highlights the connectedness between global and local activism as transnational feminisms cross geopolitical borders and question interpersonal and institutional dimensions of inequalities simultaneously. Evidence from transnational feminisms demonstrate that women form deep bonds across geographic boundaries, even through online spaces where they forge collaborations to achieve shared goals.

This volume emerges from these concerns and seeks to address a significant gap in contemporary feminist scholarship: the limited attention given to the ways in which intersectional experiences and feminist struggles are shaped, negotiated, and transformed across national borders. While existing feminist scholarship has generated rich and nuanced analyses of the intersections of class, caste, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and other axes of identity and power, less attention has been paid to how these intersectionalities travel, interact, and acquire new meanings within transnational contexts, especially as they are informed by mediated by cross-border feminist collaborations.

In an increasingly interconnected world, ideas, movements, policies, and cultural practices circulate between East and West, the Global South and the Global North, profoundly influencing women's lives, identities, and political engagements. These cross-border flows and exchanges require critical examination, particularly in relation to the forms of solidarity, resistance, and knowledge production that emerge through transnational feminist networks. Theorizing the possibilities and outcomes of transnational feminisms demands a framework that moves beyond nationally bounded analyses and attends to the complex negotiations that occur across diverse geopolitical, cultural, and historical locations.

Keeping these factors & approaches in view, this anthology foregrounds both contemporary discursive trends and historical undercurrents that shape feminist thought and activism worldwide. It seeks to bring together plural perspectives and voices by mapping diverse feminist interventions through comparative, collective, cross-national, and transnational lenses. In doing so, the volume aims to contribute to ongoing debates on transnational feminisms by examining how local and global struggles intersect, converge, and diverge in the pursuit of gender justice.

Expected contributions may address, but are not limited to, the following themes through the lens of transnational feminist theorizing and praxis:

• Theorizing Transnational Feminisms: Concepts, Debates, and Methodologies

• Intersectionality Across Borders: Class, Caste, Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in Transnational Contexts

• Global South–Global North Dialogues and Feminist Knowledge Production

• Cross-Border Feminist Solidarities, Networks, and Social Movements

• Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Indigenous Feminisms

• Diaspora, Migration, Refugees, and Displacement

• Women, Digital Media, Cyberfeminism, and Online Activism

• Literature, Popular Culture, and Transnational Feminist Representations

• Literature in Indigenous and Regional Languages, Translation, and Cultural Circulation

• Gender, Labour, Care Economies, and Gender Justice

• Violence Against Women and Gender-Based Violence Across Borders

• Bodily Autonomy, Reproductive Justice, and Sexual Rights

• Queer, Trans, Non-Binary Perspectives in Transnational Feminist Discourse

• Environmental Justice and Ecofeminist Activism

• Conflict, War, Peacebuilding, and Women’s Agency

• Health, Disability, and Feminist Ethics of Care

• Transnational Feminist Pedagogies and Educational Practices

• Memory, Archives, Oral Histories, and Feminist Historiography

• Art, Visual Culture, Performance, and Creative Feminist Interventions

• New Directions and Emerging Paradigms in Transnational Feminist Theory and Practice

We invite abstracts of 200 words by 20th August 2026. Acceptance of the contribution will be notified by the 15th September 2026. You may send e-mail submissions to feminismsworldwide26@gmail.com using the subject line “Proposals for Conceptualizing Transnational Feminisms Worldwide.” Submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.

EDITORS: Prof. Rajni Singh (Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India), Dr. Sutanuka Banerjee (Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India) & Prof. Diana J Fox (Professor, Bridgewater State University, USA).