still from the video Anticapitalist feminist struggle, and transnational
solidarity (79 min. 2007)

Installation view of Anticapitalist feminist struggle, and transnational
solidarity (68 min. 2007) at Artists Space, New York, 2007. The video
was shown together with posters (with translations) from The Women’s
Centre in Katunayake (Sri Lanka), which was established to protect
and empower women workers in the Free Trade Zone’s.

 

 

 

Anticapitalist feminist struggle, and transnational solidarity
(video, 79 min. Jesper Nordahl, 2007)

Based on an interview with Chandra Talpade Mohanty recorded in March 2007, Anticapitalist feminist struggle, and transnational solidarity investigates the relation between capitalism and gender structures, cartographies of struggle, and counter hegemonic narratives. Mohanty is Professor of Women’s Studies and Dean’s Professor of Humanities at Syracuse University, NY.