Conclusion

Throughout the spring semester of 2023, students in Profe Esther’s Transnational Feminist Theories course read and discussed dominant transnational feminist theories of our time. In these personalized essays, students of this class interweaved global cases of gender inequality and unique issues that women face across the world with transnational feminist frameworks. In each research project, students faced issues such as limited literature on the specific topics that they chose as a testament to the subaltern and under-researched cases that go beyond the scope of Western intellectual postcolonial and feminist studies.

The authors classified the book into three parts: Care Work (edit), Indigenous Feminisms (edit), and The Subaltern Rising. In the care work chapter, students discussed the fight for Domestic Workers labor rights in Mexico, and completed an economic analysis of the Global Women’s Strike Movement. In the second chapter, Indigenous Feminisms, authors uniquely combined ideas on how Indigenous Activists are radical leaders of Feminist Theory, and the ideas of Cuerpo Territorio and the Capital-Life conflict throughout Latin America. Lastly, in the final chapter of the book, or the Subaltern Rising section, authors interweaved subaltern stories of women in India, Argentina, and Bosnia to discuss the ways in which women in subaltern areas of the world fight to make their voices heard all around the world. The authors of this class thoroughly enjoyed and felt passionate about their work and are excited to explore future discussions on the subject.