ABSTRACT
The author looks at passage to feminism and reflects on her experiences of being a feminist. She shows that, although her physical passage to feminism took place abroad and in the past, her intellectual journey is an ongoing process. When the author first started to reflect upon her encounters with US feminist theory, and passage to feminism, she was thinking about travelling, both in terms of theory and space. The author became a feminist as a result of her intellectual and physical journeys. The culturally established link between feminism and man-hating on the one hand, and the heterosexist requirement that women desire men on the other, not only gave rise to affirmations of one's femininity and/or heterosexuality on the part of the respondents, but also on the author's part. In this specific instance, the adaptation of North American theoretical concepts did not involve rearticulations; instead, her feminism was rearticulated.
