ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book concerns becoming a feminist in a transatlantic context. Each piece contains a biographical trajectory whereby the author discovers herself as a feminist, although feminism is defined and mobilized in very different ways. While each author expresses a general commitment to something called 'feminism', her journey toward feminism is shaped by her personal history, by generation and the point at which she entered feminism, and by her social location. The book also concerns the search for a more encompassing form of activism, inside and outside the academy. Few of the authors regarded feminism as separate from other political agendas. It discusses the theoretical engagements that have emerged as a result of transnational conversations. Theoretical concepts that start out in one place for example, the USA take on very different means when they travel.
