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Remaking Universals?

Transnational Feminism(s) Challenging Fundamentalist Ecumenism

This article looks at how religious fundamentalism is aiming at influencing the international discourse on women's rights, especially reproductive rights. Simultaneously, we are witnessing the rise of something we could call transnational feminism(s). Much of the recent academic discussion on universalism, anti-universalism and cultural relativism is centered on Islam, but this discussion has larger relevance, for example in Latin America and in the context of Catholicism, which provide the concrete examples in the article. Feminist critique of religion is central in the deconstruction of religious fundamentalism, but is not usually very well known by feminist social scientists. Transnational feminism(s), as a wide political movement, is developing new approaches to formulating intercultural criteria for human rights, especially women's rights, and for the truth claims these are based on.

Key Words: Latin America • particularism • religion • reproductive rights • universalism

Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 19, No. 1-2, 175-195 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/026327640201900109


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