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title: Global Feminisms
description: This field examines feminist movements, theories, and activism outside of Western contexts, focusing on diverse cultural and geopolitical realities. Learners will understand how women's rights intersect with post-colonialism, globalization, and local traditions.
category: social-sciences
subcategory: gender-studies
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/global-feminisms
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# Global Feminisms

This field examines feminist movements, theories, and activism outside of Western contexts, focusing on diverse cultural and geopolitical realities. Learners will understand how women's rights intersect with post-colonialism, globalization, and local traditions.

## Available Resources

1 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Global Fund for Women

Funding and stories from global feminists, rec'd on r/academia

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/

### 2. AWID - Association for Women's Rights in Development

Website of AWID, an international feminist membership organization publishing research, reports and analysis on women's rights movements, feminist funding, and anti-rights backlash worldwide. Useful for understanding how feminist organizing operates across regions and how movements frame development and human rights.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.awid.org/

**Tags:** global-feminisms, womens-rights, social-movements, gender-and-development, human-rights

### 3. unwomen.org

UN Women is the United Nations agency dedicated to advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment worldwide. Its website provides information on programs, policy briefs, research and data, and news, stories, and resources related to women’s rights and feminist advocacy globally.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://unwomen.org

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, gender-studies

## Books

### 1. Feminism without Borders

**Author:** Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Mohanty's collected essays critiquing how Western feminist scholarship represents women in the Global South, and proposing transnational solidarity grounded in anticapitalist critique. Readers come away able to analyze universalizing claims about women and assess feminist politics across national and economic borders.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0822330210?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, gender-studies

## Courses

### 1. Feminism and Social Justice

"Feminism and Social Justice" is an adaptation of Distinguished Professor Bettina Aptheker's long-running course at UC Santa Cruz. In the course, Professor Aptheker presents a broad definition of feminism that serves to frame three significant events in the history of feminism and social justice: the Empire Zinc strike of 1951, the 1971-1972 trial of Angela Davis, and the #metoo Movement.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/feminism-social-justice

**Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, gender-studies

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