“ The Power to Narrate” : Film Festivals, a Platform for Transnational Feminism?

Scholars and activists of "third wave feminism"1 have now accepted the idea of difference and multiple identities. This has fragmented their political discourse, as Lovenduski (1993) notes: "once the diversity of women is recognised and privileged over their commonality, no appeal to collective action can be addressed to common womanhood" (p. 91). Feminism's complex and diverse theoretical frame has thus come to mean little in terms of a unified political agenda. "A central problem within feminist discourse has been our inability to either arrive at a consensus of opinion about what feminism is or accept definition(s) that could serve as points of unification" (Hooks 1984).