ABSTRACT Keywords: collaboration, border-crossings, positionality, relevance, transnational feminist methodologies Richa Nagar Nagar.p65 9/26/2003, 1:56 PM2 In September 2002, Ellen Messer-Davidow (2002a), at a talk about her book Disciplining Feminism, cited an incident where Donna Shalala, the former United States (US) Secretary of Health and Human Services, had maintained that academic research was useless
