@article{Miraj_2022, title={For a Revolutionary Feminist World-Systems Analysis: The Case of Ghadar}, volume={28}, url={https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/1065}, DOI={10.5195/jwsr.2022.1065}, abstractNote={<p class="AbstractParagraphs">In revolutionary anti-colonial movements, women’s involvement has been limited, and their contributions often marginalized or forgotten. This is not only an empirical puzzle in that anti-colonial movements have historically recruited women and furthered feminist discourse while also marginalizing female members, but also a political problem for movements that the lived reality for female participants diverges from the egalitarian philosophies of the movements themselves. In this article, I build on and further develop theories of feminist world-systems analysis, contending that feminist world-systems needs to rethink theories of anti-systemic movements to better include women’s revolutionary roles as active agents in the historical process of colonial independence and decolonization. In so doing, I contend that a revolutionary feminist world-systems analysis is increasingly important to analyze that women’s active roles as revolutionary agents have been sidelined because the movements that they have been a part of have also found themselves co-opted by dominant liberal ideology. This theoretical position is illustrated through an analysis of the published periodicals of the anti-colonial Ghadar Party. Through this empirical case study, I show that Ghadar’s revolutionary potential receded to the background because of its failures to fully include its female members. This case study is then levied to demonstrate how reviving a feminist world-systems analysis can help us better theorize women’s important but under-analyzed role in revolutionary anti-colonial movements.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Journal of World-Systems Research}, author={Miraj, Umaima}, year={2022}, month={Mar.}, pages={53–76} }