本文运用萨伊德(Edward Said)的“理论旅行”的概念以及巴赫金(Mikhial Bahktin)的狂欢理论,对《阴道独白》这一女性主义的文本从美国到中国又传回美国的跨国旅行和本土化的过程进行了描述和分析,旨在探讨第三世界妇女运动在全球化时代如何与西方的女性主义理论和实践进行对话,从而达成一种从边缘到中心的反向的知识流动(reverse flow of knowledge)。 This article uses Edward Said’s concept of “theory of travel” and Mikhial Bahktin’s theory of carnival, transforms the feminist text of “vaginal soliloquy” from the United States to China and back to the United States The process of travel and localization is described and analyzed in order to explore how the Third World Women’s Movement can dialogue with Western feminist theory and practice in the age of globalization so as to achieve a backward-oriented knowledge flow from the periphery to the center reverse flow of knowledge.