This open access book explores the transnational variations of feminism as informed by the diverse historical, cultural, political and geographical conjunctures. The volume covers a diverse range of media and literary genres including poetry, fan fiction, print media such as newspapers and children’s magazines, and various digital media including social media, video sharing platforms, and instant messengers. It foregrounds sites and contexts of transnational connectivity outside of the global political and economic centers of the Global West. It brings transnational feminist activism into dialogue with historical analysis of gender equality within diverse political and cultural domains, while offering conceptual tools for detecting and analyzing epistemological gaps, absences and silences. By bringing together these empirical, historical, and methodological viewpoints, the volume offers an up-to-date reflection of ‘transnational feminism’ as a category essential for contemporary scholarship on social movements and global media. It will be of interest to researchers and students in gender studies, the communication sciences, cultural and literary studies, history, and sociology, as well as media practitioners, NGO and policy makers, and other organizations dealing with gender equality.

Saara Ratilainen is Senior Lecturer in Russian Language and Culture at Tampere University, Finland.

Galina Miazhevich is Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media, and Culture at Cardiff University, UK.

Daniil Zhaivoronok is a Ph.D. student in Russian language and culture at Tampere University, Finland.