The Global Feminisms Project, originated in 2002 and based at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at the University of Michigan,[1] is an oral history project led by a team of researchers at the University of Michigan that collects interviews of feminist activists representing seven countries including China, India, Poland, the United States, Brazil, Nicaragua, and Russia.[1] The focus of the project is to record and archive the stories of females who are activists and scholars within the socio-historical context of their own countries, formed with curricular and research goals at its core.[1] The sources provided lend themselves to comparative and interdisciplinary work, addressing issues that reach across disciplines and provide information regarding activism, historical context, identity formation, and social movements.[1] The interviews are designed to explore the ways in which different forms of activism intersect at various, distinct time points within the history of the represented countries.
The project began with the integration of women's studies, an international perspective, and a focus on the activism within nations.[2] The project emphasizes the relationship between women's activism and feminist scholarship and aims to represent transformations in feminism within each nation represented alongside the following parameters: conceptual, organizational, and social.[2][3]
- ^ a b c d "About the Global Feminisms Project | Global Feminisms at the University of Michigan". globalfeminisms.umich.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
- ^ a b Lal, Jayati; McGuire, Kristin; Stewart, Abigail J.; Zaborowska, Magdalena; Pas, Justine M. (2010). "Recasting Global Feminisms: Toward a Comparative Historical Approach to Women's Activism and Feminist Scholarship". Feminist Studies. 36 (1): 13–39. JSTOR 40607998.
- ^ Zheng, WANG; ZHANG, Ying (2010). "Global Concepts, Local Practices: Chinese Feminism since the Fourth UN Conference on Women". Feminist Studies. 36 (1): 40–70. JSTOR 40607999.