Transnational Feminism in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence in Ghana

摘要

This discussion of the development of literature and activism about IPV in Ghana has been intended to show the effects of transnational feminism, a process that learns from itself over time. The idea that something could be done about pervasive IPV was initiated, at least in part, in Ghana by international contacts-at conferences, by studying or doing research in one another's countries, and reading the literature coming out of each context. U.S. feminists, with all good intentions, could not know what might work in Ghana, just as they have not definitively figured out what works best at home. Thus, the increase in research and publication on IPV by Ghanaians themselves has enriched our understanding of it both in its par-ticular and its universal aspects.243 The insights Africans have gained, in analyzing, theorizing, and experimenting with approaches to IPV, are valuable for feminists writing in the global North as well.