Abstract

Women’s Transnational Collectivities as Agents of Global Justice Claims in a Transnational Feminist Justice Paradigm

As global economic integration of local economies has proceeded, the benefits and burdens of neo-liberal globalization have been unevenly distributed between genders as well as among nations and between the global South and North. In these circumstances of global (in)justice, global South women's justice issues and concerns are obscured, when agents of global justice claims are viewed either as national collectivities in the nation-staticism, or as the abstract human beings as citizens of the world in the cosmopolitanism

After examining accounts of nation-statism and cosmopolitanism, this paper argues that in order that the specific injustices suffered by women in the global economy be addressed, a transnational feminist perspectives should be added to the discussion of global justice, in which women's transnational collectivities should be more highlighted as agents of global justice claim; they are different from national collectivities in that they are women’s collectivities across borders, and different from abstract individuals across borders in that they construct collectivities based on some common interests and locations.