Professional Affiliation

Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University

Expert Bio

Born in Tehran, Iran, Prof. Moghadam received her higher education in Canada and the US. In addition to her academic career, Prof. Moghadam has been Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Research Program on Women and Development, UNU/WIDER, Helsinki (1990-95) and Section Chief, Gender Equality and Development, Human and Social Sciences Sector, UNESCO, Paris (2004-06). The author of many journal articles, five books and co-author of one, Prof. Moghadam has edited nine books.

Wilson Center Project

"Globalization, Transnational Feminist Networks, and Public Policy"

Project Summary

Transnational feminist networks (TFNs) are research, lobbying, and advocacy structures organized above and across national boundaries that unite women from three or more countries around a common agenda typically focused on human rights or economic policy issues. I examine six such networks in terms of their origins, organizational structures, objectives, and main activities, links to other networks, interaction with national and intergovernmental organizations, and influence on public policy. In addition to collecting interview and documentary data on the TFNs, I theorize the relationship between globalization and transnational feminist networks, and analyze the way that such women's organizations respond to global processes and (re)define rights. In so doing I elaborate on a relatively under-researched aspect of "globalization-from-below" and "global civil society."

Major Publications

• Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East. Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1993.
  
   
• Women, Work and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998.
  
   
• "Transnational Feminist Networks: Collective Action in an Era of Globalization." International Sociology, vol. 15, no. 1, 57-85, March 2000.