The Global Feminist and the Transnational Feminist

Academic discourse is a means of applying new and old theory to topics to better understand or challenge the ideas presented in the field. By discussing and analyzing these concepts, we will be able to apply individual voices to the academic community, gain a wider range of ideas and discuss further. Grewal participated in this essay at her article "Women's rights as human rights: feminist practice, global feminism and cross-border human rights institution".

"Feminist theory of globalization" is a general term that refers to some specific theoretical method used by feminists to describe the challenges globalization brings to women, colored people, and the poor in the world. These different approaches include methods developed by post-colonial feminists, cross-border feminists, and feminists supporting moral care. This section identifies four key features shared by these different feminist globalization methods and outlines some of the unique features in each theoretical direction.

First, multinational feminism is sensitive to differences among women. A global feminist believes that patriarchalism is universal; women all over the world have a common experience of gender repression. Based on these shared experiences, they promote the recognition of "global sisterhood" that transcends race, class, gender, and border differences. This unity is thought to be a unified front of the world patriarchal system. Cross-border feminists also advocate unity across national borders. However, their approach highlights the methodological commitments discussed above, in particular cross-sectoral, susceptibility to specific specificities, and self-reflection. Multinational feminists carefully point out that women's influence will differ based on geographical and social location, although the globalization process will affect everyone.

In the broadest sense, multinational feminism believes that globalization creates conditions for a cross-border feminist solidarity. On the one hand, globalization has made it possible to create inequality in international processes in several geographical places, such as global assembly lines (see below). On the other hand, the technology related to globalization has created a new political space that allows feminists to resist politics. Therefore, transnational feminists incorporated critical insights into post colonialism, Third World, and consideration for feminist ethics into the positive vision of the transnational feminist solidarity.