“One Voice Kills Both Our Voices”: “First World” Feminism and Transcultural Feminist Engagement

Abstract

By now, in the U.S. academy and in this particular volume, the diversity of conceptualizations of women’s political participation might appear to make it easier than it was, say 20 years ago, to theorize comparatively.1 One might even hope to produce a “metaanalysis” of female political agency that would help clear the way for coalitional/collaborative scholarship and activism, freer than before from the masculinist/colonial/imperial distortions of “Western eyes” (Mohanty 1991, 51–80). Motivating that analysis would be a desire to explore likely nodes for dialogue between and among these female political agents, some of them newly audible to one another as a result of their crossing paths in Beijing, Porto Alegre, Seattle, Mumbai, and in numerous more intimate venues—a seminar room in Irvine, for example.2

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