The feminist genealogies that lie behind this project can be charted on various levels. Besides our own individual and collective genealogies, we want to consider 1) the contours of feminist intellectual and political practice as it is institutionalized within Women’s Studies programs in U.S. colleges and universities; 2) the effects of postmodernist theory on the theorization of the experience, consciousness, and social identities of women of color, especially in terms of the formulation of international or global feminisms; and 3) the significance of self-examination and reflection on the genealogies of feminist organizations. In the last case, we want to offer here a comparative, relational way of thinking about feminist praxis that is grounded in the concrete analysis and visionings of the authors/communities in this collection.
