Introduction

The coming into being of academic feminism has been shaped by the enlacing of manifold epistemic and geopolitical standpoints as well as their encounters and collisions. The extent to which this many-faceted domain is steeped in modes of perception and taxonomies of knowledge is demonstrated by narratives of the radical changes around the year 1989, which involved an implosion of multiple spatial, political, and epistemic boundaries. The dissolution of the bipolar world order not only gave rise to a multipolar geopolitical figuration but also shifted the guiding axis from that of the Eastern and Western blocs to that of the Global North and the Global South. Characteristic of the Eastern European positionality is the ambiguity and lack of clarity of being at once part of Europe and outside Europe. During the Cold War, there was close cooperation between the Second and Third Worlds on an international level in the decolonization process.