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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 471–479.
Published: 01 October 2019
... to formulate their own manifesto and ultimately adopt the Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists, which was first published in 2007 simultaneously in English and French. This paper reviews both statements and acknowledges their critical contributions to the evolution of Transnational Feminisms...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 113–119.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., and asserted women's demands in terms of principles of equity and justice. Rather than accept the masculinist and individualist terms of citizenship offered by instrumental approaches to democracy, South African feminists argued that women (indeed all citizens) should be viewed as both autonomous andconnected...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 253–260.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of publishing manifestos. James analyzes the text of the Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists, productively comparing it to the Combahee River Collective manifesto. How do concepts like interlocking oppression, methodologies like radical collectivity, and the praxis of feminist alliance building...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2002
... THE LOCAL 3 theories of human rights. If cultures are to be evaluated and judged, it must not be from the vantage point of an arrogant outsider. The dilemma contained in the universalist term "human" and its interaction with the term "culture" is in some sense embedded in feminist jurisprudence...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2005
.... In terms of structural resources, the women's movement undertook extensive training of women lawyers in the use of gender analysis and feminist approaches to women's rights, and Zimbabwean women were critical in the formulation of the African Women's Charter (within the African Human Rights Charter...
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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...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 177–194.
Published: 01 March 2006
... the possibilities of an unapologetic African feminist consciousness, by appropriating elements from African traditions, he creates counter-narratives about the ostensibly hapless African womanhood. As we will see with FaatKineand Moolaadet,he heroines exhibit a self-referential feminism, that is, a mode of agency...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 240–266.
Published: 01 October 2023
... sisters” who practiced the Global North’s intersectional feminism essentialized the center-periphery binary—the disparities that, on the other hand, global feminism erased in the name of solidarity. African American feminists offer similar critiques of global and international feminism. For example, some...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 112–126.
Published: 01 December 2020
... been legally and morally mandated by a plethora of universal human rights charters and United Nations resolutions, and by the most elemental principles of justice. Indeed, the return of Palestinians displaced before and during Israel’s creation was an original precondition for Israel’s acceptance...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 113–126.
Published: 01 September 2001
... repatriation has been legally and morally mandated by a plethora of universal human rights charters and United Nations resolutions, and by the most elemental principles of justice. Indeed, the return of Palestinians displaced before and during Israel's creation was an original precondition for Israel's...
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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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