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Wendy Harcourt interviews three feminist activists who have been engaged in feminist action from the grassroots to transnational levels. They reflect on changes in feminist and women's movement organizing, both in terms of what are the new issues emerging today and what feminist organizing has given to transformational movement building.
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Personal communication with Sundaramma, Mahila Samakhya Sangha (women's collective) leader of Bagdal village, Bidar District, Karnataka State in South India, in February 1991.
The Handbook is The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Feminist Movements to be published by Oxford University Press America edited Rawwida Baksh and Wendy Harcourt.
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Harcourt, W. Crossborder Feminisms. Development 55, 190–197 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2012.12
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