Historians of colonialism have long revealed the coproduction of the modern scientific knowledge about gender between European empires and non-European societies since the eighteenth century. Existing scholarship, however, tends to focus on specific colonial spaces such as India and Indonesia as isolated cases rather than inquiring into their interaction. This panel draws on recent development in global intellectual history to reorient the ways in which we understand the circulation of the knowledge about gender and the making of feminist thought. Instead of conceiving a unilateral relationship between a metropole and a colony, this panel collectively turns to much more diverse networks where knowledge production in the Dutch East Indies could resonate not only in European thought but also in intellectual trends in India, the Arab world, and vice versa. We will ask a series of questions: How did the movement of people, objects, and ideas shape the geography of our knowledge about the body, family, kinship, and the society at large? How did Afro-Asian and intra-Asian dialogs facilitate the emergence of the critique of dominant forms of patriarchy? How to do justice to the often uneven and unequal participation in this economy of knowledge between women and men, the elite and the subaltern, the colonizer and the colonized? Through these questions, we aim to foreground the connections and parallels between the historiography of gender and feminism in multiple locations while not losing sight of local specificities. By bringing together historians working across conventional regional fields, this panel also challenges any simple conceptualization of the European-indigenous dichotomy which is still often invoked in narratives of global history.