vii, 261 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Transnational feminist practices and questions of postmodernity / Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan -- The female body and nationalist discourse : The field of life and death revisited / Lydia Liu -- The female body and "transnational" reproduction ; or, rape by any other name? / Mary Layoun -- Woman, nation, and narration in Midnight's children / Nalini Natarajan -- Betrayal : an analysis in three acts / Kamala Visweswaran -- Traddutora, traditora : a paradigmatic figure of Chicana feminism / Norma Alarcón -- The politics of location as transnational feminist practice / Caren Kaplan -- Crossing the First World/Third World divides : testimonial, transnational feminisms, and the postmodern condition / Robert Carr -- Theorizing woman : funü, guojia, jiating (Chinese women, Chinese State, Chinese family) / Tani Barlow -- No basta teorizar : in-difference to solidarity in contemporary fiction, theory, and practice / Fred Pfeil -- Autobiographic subjects and diasporic locations : Meatless days and Borderlands / Inderpal Grewal

Introduction: Transnational feminist practices and questions of postmodernity / Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan -- The female body and nationalist discourse : The field of life and death revisited / Lydia Liu -- The female body and "transnational" reproduction ; or, rape by any other name? / Mary Layoun -- Woman, nation, and narration in Midnight's children / Nalini Natarajan -- Betrayal : an analysis in three acts / Kamala Visweswaran -- Traddutora, traditora : a paradigmatic figure of Chicana feminism / Norma Alarcon -- The politics of location as transnational feminist practice / Caren Kaplan -- Crossing the First World/Third World divides : testimonial, transnational feminisms, and the postmodern condition / Robert Carr -- Theorizing woman : funu, guojia, jiating (Chinese women, Chinese State, Chinese family) / Tani Barlow -- No basta teorizar : in-difference to solidarity in contemporary fiction, theory, and practice / Fred Pfeil -- Autobiographic subjects and diasporic locations : Meatless days and Borderlands / Inderpal Grewal