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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 113–119.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., 1994 Despite the emergence of democracy movements in all corners of Africa, only a small number of African states are governed now by democratic regimes. At least since the colonial period, African women have mobilized to challenge patriarchal states and societies on behalf of their concerns, yet...
View articletitled, Redefining the Terms: Putting South <span class="search-highlight">African</span> <span class="search-highlight">Women</span> on Democracy's Agenda
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., including African women, who, by and large, were excluded from the benefits of independence. Zimbabwe provides an excellent example of how the transition to a postcolonial society has given rise to new sociopolitical challenges, and how, in particular, the twenty-first-century women's struggles can lead us...
View articletitled, Becoming Postcolonial: <span class="search-highlight">African</span> <span class="search-highlight">Women</span> Changing the Meaning of Citizenship
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 233–245.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Abena P. A. Busia Abstract This essay is a reflection of the monumental Women Writing Africa project by one of the project’s three editors. Over the course of two decades, the project published four volumes documenting the history of literary expression by African women throughout the continent...
View articletitled, Creating the Archive of <span class="search-highlight">African</span> <span class="search-highlight">Women’s</span> Writing: Reflecting on Feminism, Epistemology, and the <span class="search-highlight">Women</span> Writing Africa Project
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Carole Boyce Davies Abstract African women's rights, in its early expressions, was linked to the critique of particular economic/class systems which disempowered the majority of women in contemporary Africa. However, the discourse was subsequently dominated by a move towards feminist politics...
View articletitled, Gender/Class Intersections and <span class="search-highlight">African</span> <span class="search-highlight">Women's</span> Rights
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 191–200.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Elise Young; Zengie Mangaliso CONFERENCE COMMENTARY South African and African American Women to ELISE YOUNG AND ZENGIE MANGALISO From April 27 to May r, 2000, South African women and African American women converged at a conference organized by the Global Women's History Project (GWHP...
View articletitled, South <span class="search-highlight">African</span> and <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American <span class="search-highlight">Women</span>: Journey to Freedom
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 113–132.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of problems may be common among academic women in general, it is also important to account for the distinctive ways in which women of color, and African women scholars in particular, encounter and negotiate such institutions. For example, some problems that African women faculty face in academia are specific...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">African</span> Feminist Scholars in <span class="search-highlight">Women's</span> Studies: Negotiating Spaces of Dislocation and Transformation in the Study of <span class="search-highlight">Women</span>
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 121–147.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Brazil's tremendous successes with respect to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, this article offers a framework for understanding the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on African-descendant women in the country. The analysis focuses on the gender and racial dynamics of HIV/AIDS and seeks to center Afro...
View articletitled, Centering <span class="search-highlight">African</span>-Descendant <span class="search-highlight">Women</span> in HIV/AIDS Research, Policy, and Praxis in Brazil
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 104–123.
Published: 01 March 2005
... explore experiences of strength, self, and embodiment, I undertook an interview study with twelve African American women. All were students enrolled at an urban university in the southern region of the United States and ranged in age from 19 to 46, with a mean of 27.4 years. The women were of diverse body...
View articletitled, Keeping Up Appearances, Getting Fed Up: The Embodiment of Strength among <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American <span class="search-highlight">Women</span>
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 94–151.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Joyce C. Follet Abstract This essay offers a historical overview of African American women’s efforts to gain access to contraception, from the early stirrings of the campaign to legalize birth control in the 1910s to the eve of mass movements for racial equality and women’s rights in the 1960s...
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View articletitled, Making Democracy Real: <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American <span class="search-highlight">Women</span>, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 353–381.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Selina Makana Abstract The assertion that the mid-twentieth century Black freedom struggles across the African diaspora was a masculine era is one that continues to strike a chord with many African women whose voices have remained absent from the rhetoric on national liberation struggles across...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Julie Iromuanya Abstract The politically voiceless, economically visible, and racially indeterminate middleman minority status as noted by sociologists Edna Bonacich and Pyong Gap Min hardly comes to mind when scholars envision women of Africa and the African Diaspora. Still, when considering...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 338–358.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué Abstract Utilizing interdisciplinary and multimethodological approaches, this essay explores women’s roles in buttressing the political cohesion of secessionist movements in postcolonial Africa. It argues that African women have supported the actions of male...
View articletitled, Gender and (Militarized) Secessionist Movements in Africa: An <span class="search-highlight">African</span> Feminist’s Reflections
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 383–400.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Msia Kibona Clark Abstract Women hip hop artists in Africa have created spaces for themselves within hip hop’s (hyper)masculine culture. They have created these spaces in order to craft their own narratives around gender and sexuality and to challenge existing narratives. This research uses African...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the African woman “other”? What are the promises, if any, of African feminist ethnography documenting the histories of women on the continent? This essay argues that African feminist ethnography is a productive methodology that helps to highlight knowledge production about women’s lives in their specific...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 471–479.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... Copyright © 2019 Smith College 2019 Combahee River Collective Statement Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists transnational feminisms Black feminism African feminism The 2017 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland celebrated...
View articletitled, Remarks for a Roundtable on Transnational Feminism: National <span class="search-highlight">Women’s</span> Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland, November 16–19, 2017
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 401–414.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Wynter ( 1994 ), Sharpe ( 2016 , 13) implores us to resist our participation in the reproduction of our “narratively condemned status” and instead “become undisciplined.” In a similar argument, Danai Mupotsa ( 2010 , 3) asks, “When will African women get to study interiorities without displaying self...
View articletitled, Homing with My Mother / How <span class="search-highlight">Women</span> in My Family Married <span class="search-highlight">Women</span>
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 150–162.
Published: 01 September 2018
... highlights the multiple elements kept in tension, as embodied in an archive of images taken by a group of Trappist monks in the Eastern Cape in the late nineteenth century. The images of South African women show in Campt’s interpretation, a sense of confidence and dignity in the ways the women hold...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): v–ix.
Published: 01 September 2005
... unleashed. Patricia McFadden's "Becoming Postcolonial: African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship" falls under a new category in Meridians:the editorial essay. In it McFadden focuses on the positionality of women in independent Zimbabwe as a model for the struggles-and possibilitiesof African women...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 269–278.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Fatima Sadiqi; Aziza Ouguir Abstract Aziza Ouguir talks with Professor Fatima Sadiqi, one of Africa’s most prolific and well-respected feminist scholars, about African feminisms north and south of the Sahara. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 African feminism Moroccan feminism women...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 415–431.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of feminism within the African context. Initially I entered this new journey through a critique of liberal declarations and practices of citizenship, which keep the majority of women outside the ambit of laws and protections that are supposed to be universal entitlements in all African constitutions...
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