More Trans than National? Re-Thinking Transnational Feminism through Affective Orders

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Notes

¹It is interesting to note in this context that at the ‘Transnational Feminisms’ conference, held at the University of Manchester in December 2009, at which I gave a version of this paper, a number of papers began to show a strong interest in linking affective orders to discussions about transnational feminisms.

²See, for example, Blackwood 2008; Boellstorff 2005, 2007; Gopinath 2005; Gopinath, 1998; Ong and Peletz, 1995; Patton and Sanchez-Eppler, 2000; Sullivan and Jackson 2001; Wieringa 2007.

³This is not a problem specific to the Indonesian context; Kramer, and Johnston and Valentine discuss this in Bell and Valentine, 1995.

⁴Tellingly, she states that she ‘paid other women to take care of these domestic duties for me.’ (57), thus enacting the role of the rich, professional foreigner who can have female servants just as men do.

⁵See, for example, the introduction to Harper et al (2005).

⁶I borrow this term from Crenshaw (1991).