Feminisms and sociologies: Locations and intersections in a global context

This article explores the many ways that sociologies and feminisms have intersected with an equal emphasis on the actual content of these intersections as well as on the context. First, the article shows how disciplinary histories and feminist rethinking across nations' and regions' do bear similarities, but also differ in many significant ways. Second, linked to the matter of contexts and travels is the matter of hierarchies within international academia that acquires new forms in the global context. Third, the national location of the academia continues to matter, evident, for instance, in the rich feminist scholarship on kinship and family studies, which prised open central sociological categories in India, precisely when the field was declared waning in the West and in the feminist engagement with sociology of education which reflects a persistent engagement with India's classrooms and pedagogy. Finally, if these visible new areas of feminist recasting are missed out when counting sociology's tryst with feminism, then we need to ask what is misplaced in the yardsticks of measurements.