This word TRANSNATIONAL!!!!

When reading Grewal and Kaplan I was a little confused as to what exaclty they were trying to say. All I knew was that they were using these words transnational, globalization and sexuality.
After continuing to read I realized what the message was between both of the authors or at least this is what I pulled from it. Sexual identities are indentities that are similar to other types of indentities but they are ones that hold power relations. Transnational is a word that was introduce to me for the first time when reading this article it was explained to be one that address the assymmetryof the globalization process.
Both authors break down the five different ways in which the term transnational has done a particular kind of work in the U.S. academy. It points out transnational flows, and yet ties it all into migration. It is important that we understand as feminist in practice that culture is more relavant than our nation and that our indentity is linked to whatever we define our culture to be.Bernal says that " Embracing globalization and transnationalism as forces that render the nation inconsequential may appeal ....."(p.570) It is also important that we recognize the seperation of spheres the seperation of sexuality from the study of race, class, nation, religion, etc That is why each of these categories are seperate from one another even though they all play apart in our culture they are also significant by themselves for a reason.
The study of sexuality is one that has been limited in the U.S. Academy in order to address the aspect of human life. It is well known that when one begins to study their own culture we begin to see the shift with in our own dynamics. In conclusion, " Such interdisciplinary work will enable us to understand global indentities at the present time and to examine complicities as well as resistances in order to create the possibilty of critique and change." (p.574)