ABSTRACT
Transnational feminist praxis can be thought of as a loose series of localized responses to "scattered hegemonies". Global feminist ethnography mobilizes insights from critical race, feminist and post-structural approaches to understanding gender, race, and “development" as socio-political categories that require ethnographic investigation of how women both experience and contest those definitions and their effects in everyday life. Feminist historians have adopted definitions of citizenship and activism from political theorizing. Some of these definitions include assumptions about a split between public and private spheres and a separation between the political and the cultural realms of society and the kinds of activities that constitute social activism. Young women have been positioned largely around and within discourses of sexuality and motherhood, albeit in multiple ways according to their place and status in real and imagined contexts. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
