ABSTRACT
This chapter takes on the model of political process and Tarrow's model of transnational activism to illustrate how and under what circumstances women's movements in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) utilizes the strategies of global framing and externalization. It challenges the harmful hegemony of White liberal feminism as the one and only legitimate feminism and brings forward the plurality and complexity of feminist movements of Global South. Feminism and women's movements have been increasingly global; solidarity and sisterhood are neither local nor global. By using the rhetoric of Western feminism and by seeking international allies, women's movements in postcolonial Muslim societies can easily be suspected of cultural imperialism or in fact be complicit. The colonial processes and the neo-colonial processes of globalization have resulted in the construction of women's bodies as the symbolic sites of nation-building and anti-imperialist projects. Global framing of women's movements rooted in postcolonial MENA societies have been accompanied by reaching out to international institutions.
