Dilemmas of feminist practice in transnational spaces: Solidarity, personal growth, and potential solutions.

In this article, we introduce Revisiting Dilemmas in Transnational Feminist Research and Practice, a themed section of Gender, Place and Culture. Composed of four articles and this Introduction, the section builds from a core problem, documented in the literature, that feminist engagements between t...

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Publicado en:Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography Vol. 26; no. 10; pp. 1345 - 1353
Autores principales: Rajan, Hamsa, Thornhill, Kerrie
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct2019
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          School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
          Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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        Self-actualization (Psychology)
        Feminists
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        feminist activism
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