About the Global Feminisms Project

 

The Global Feminisms Project (GFP) originated in 2002 to create an archive of oral histories from women scholars and activists from four countries: China, India, Poland, and the USA Since then, we have added interviews from Brazil, Nicaragua, and Russia.

The GFP was designed with curricular and research goals at its core. The materials lend themselves to comparative and interdisciplinary work, addressing issues that reach across disciplines and bring understandings of activism, historical context, identity formation, and social movements into play. For those hoping to incorporate the materials into their classes, we have gathered syllabi and notes on thematic modules as well as bibliographies and additional materials. We also list publications that have used the GFP archive, including articles in Signs and Feminist Studies and a number of book chapters.

For more information about using the transcripts and videos, see How to Use the Interviews.

The GFP is based at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at the University of Michigan, which is also the home for the USA site research team.

Our international collaborators include:

• Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL
• China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA
• SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA
• Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA
• Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLAND
• Professor Natalia Pushkareva at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, the Russian Academy of Science, RUSSIA
   

Over the years, an impressive team of undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty in the USA and in each site country have contributed to the project. We appreciate the many ways that each of them has contributed to creating this archive.

Project Co-Directors Abigail Stewart, Kristin McGuire (Jayati Lal, past co-director)             Site Coordinators Carlos Arenas, Sueann Caulfield, Elizabeth Cole, Rebecca Friedman, Shelly Grabe, Keila Grinberg, Zhang Jian,  Juanita Jiménez, Wang Jinling, C.S. Lakshmi, Jayati Lal, Ana Maria Maria, Natalia Pushkarova, Renata Saavedra, Slawka Walczewska, Magdalena Zaborowska, Wang Zheng Research assistants and translators Nicola Curtin, Eimeel Castillo Dona, Kim Dorazio, Marisol Fila, Christopher Fort, Emily Gach, Gina Goldfaden, Olga Greco, Lina Grant, Alexandra Gross, Jana Haritatos, Juan Hernandez, Helen Ho, Cheng Jizhong, Kasia Kietlinska, Juilanna Lee, Lucas Limoncic, Sumiao Li, Zakiya Luna, Julia MacMillan, Leslie Marsh, Sridevi Nair, Justyna Pas, Rosa Peralta, Libby Pozolo, Rebecca Rosen, Anouk Versavel Interviewers Luciana Adriano da Silva, Miriam Asnes, Julia Baumgartner, Aruna Bhurte, Urvashi Butalia, Sueann Caulfield, Esther Chinnu, Maria Cotera, Madhushree Datta, Chen Fang, Shelly Grabe, Inga Iwasiów, Zhang Jian, Wang Jinling, Anjum Katyal, Anna Kirkland, Beata Kozak, Jayati Lal, Emily Lawsin, Binota Loitongbam, Zakiya Luna, Jennifer Lyle, Nadine Naber, Ola Piela, Angélica Souza Pinheiro, Rebecca Rosen, Shi Tong, Sławomira Walczewska, Joanna Wydrych, Gao Xueyu, Raquel Torres, Alena Zemanek, Ying Zhang, Megan Williamson, Wang Zheng Tech. Assistance R. Thomas Bray, Dustin Edwards, Keith Rainwater Graphic Design Guilherme Hoffman, Elisabeth Paymal, Marco Seiferle-Valencia Syllabus Contributors Janice M. Harbarth, Deborah Keller-Cohen, Dorothy Ko, Jayati Lal, Abigail Stewart, Ying Zhang, Wang Zheng Assignment Contributors Elizabeth Cole, Jayati Lal, Ram Mahalingam, Kristin McGuire, Desdamona Rios, Abigail Stewart, Elizabeth Wingrove, Magdalena Zaborowska, Wang Zheng

We also appreciate generous funds from the University of Michigan that made this project possible. The project got under way in 2002 with a major grant from the Rackham Graduate School for collaborative projects. Subsequently, we received funding from a range of sources at the University of Michigan, including the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women's Studies Program, the Center for South Asian Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (the Brazil Initiative), and the Third Century Learning Initiative.