ABSTRACT
Homeland Security and "home is where the heart is" capture the diverse sentiments, ranging from safety and security to fear and love, readily evoked by "home". Etymologically, "home" emanates from "the concept of homeland" that conveys protecting the land, wealth, and power of the ruling classes by promoting nationalism and patriotism while preserving one's family property as captured in the well-known phrase "a man's home is his castle". Black and Third World feminisms delivered devastating critiques of radical feminism as white, heterosexual, and middle class, identifying its essentialist and universalist conceptions of women, reproductive rights, and sex roles in the home. This chapter examines home in the work of US radical and Black and Third World feminists to assess its conceptual value for building the coalitions to advance twenty-first-century transnational feminism. Colonialism and imperialism shaped the historical context of radical and Black and Third World feminists who identified with women's liberation.
