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Trouble in the Global Village: A Snapshot of LGBT Community in Eastern Europe

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Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks

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In Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity, Chandra Talpade Mohanty calls for “definitions, descriptions, and interpretations of Third World women’s engagement with feminism… [to] be simultaneously historically specific and dynamic, not frozen in time in the form of a spectacle” (2003, 48).1

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Klosowska, A. (2011). Trouble in the Global Village: A Snapshot of LGBT Community in Eastern Europe. In: Román-Odio, C., Sierra, M. (eds) Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks. Comparative Feminist Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119475_9

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