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Cutting across Imperial Feminisms toward Transnational Feminist Solidarities

Basuli Deb
Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.13.2.09
Published: 01 March 2016
... images of women from the global south. It also examines the figure of the pan-Arab feminist Huda Shaarawi, who in 1919 organized the largest women's anti-British demonstration, and became in 1935 the vice president of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, and in 1945...
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Consumption as Changemaking and Producers as Artists: Theorizing Alt-Profit Corporations from a Transnational Feminist Perspective

Debjani Chakravarty, Christine Standish
Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 332–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-11266412
Published: 01 October 2024
... by corporations) McDonaldize their marketing strategies to capitalize on consumer interests for sustainability, fair trade, “women’s empowerment,” and a desire to consume artisanal goods. They further argue that artisans from the Global South serving consumers in the Global North are framed as gendered...
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What Transnational Feminism Has Not Disrupted Yet: Toward a Quilted Epistemology

Devaleena Das
Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 240–266.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10637591
Published: 01 October 2023
... of the existing limitations of transnational feminism and embrace multiple and incompatible feminist knowledge positions from the Global South to the Global North. Copyright © 2023 Smith College 2023 I am grateful to McMaster University, Canada, where I presented this essay as a talk in the Transnational...
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Feminist Development Justice as Emancipatory Praxis: Recognizing the Knowledge of Social Movements “From Below”

Nasha Mohamed, Sutapa Chattopadhyay, Levi Gahman
Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 306–331.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-11266444
Published: 01 October 2024
... of progressive social movements in the Global South that are guided by emancipatory politics and feminist ethics. We begin with a synopsis of development studies’ lack of attention to the enduring consequences of race, colonial power, and imperialism, as well as highlight arguments being made about the radical...
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Strategies of Visibilization : Searching for Contact Zones between the Periphery and Center in mumok’s Exhibitions, 1998–2018

claudia sandoval romero*
Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 169–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10220535
Published: 01 April 2023
... of women in the Global South who have been denied a position in the art field. The categories of center and periphery of the art world partly overlap with the categories of Global North and Global South. Even fewer women artists from the Global South are represented at mumok because countries like Japan...
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Race and Women of Color in Socialist/Postsocialist Transnational Feminisms in Central and Southeastern Europe

Miglena S. Todorova
Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 114–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.16.1.11
Published: 01 September 2018
... and former socialist states in central and southeastern Europe. Women members of dominant majorities in Bulgaria, Poland, and Romania seek links to women of color in the Global North and South but their bridgework rests upon claims to racial innocence and shared victimization. The study relates these modes...
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Profoundly Decolonizing? Reflections on a Transfeminist Perspective of International Relations

Chamindra Weerawardhana
Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 184–213.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.16.1.18
Published: 01 September 2018
... in politics from a conservative academic institution in Ireland, who is a South Asian and multilingual Trans woman of color with experience in the international sphere, and who is a parent and a migrant, categorically refutes the existing gatekeeping in IR that dehumanizes non-cisheteronormative and Global...
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Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras: Chick-Lit Criticism and Transnational Feminism

Pamela Butler, Jigna Desai
Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 1–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.2.1
Published: 01 March 2008
.... In this essay, we examine South Asian American chick-lit novels, asking how this subgenre approaches the issues of gender and sexuality central to dominant white chick lit, but also how it intersectionally engages questions of the nation-state, globalism, capitalism, race, and ethnicity as part of its coming...
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“Why Must All Girls Want to be Flag Women?”: Postcolonial Sexualities, National Reception, and Caribbean Soca Performance

Samantha Pinto
Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 137–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/mer.2009.10.1.137
Published: 01 September 2010
... of calypso, and chutney soca, as an Indo-Trinidadian-identified form with roots in traditional South Asian music as well as Carnival cultures, is a particular arena of visibility—and controversy—for critically including Indo-Trinidadian “flag” women in a feminist framework. In this essay, I read...
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When My Brown Got Colored: Living through/in the Times of White and Brahmanical Supremacy

Sreerekha Sathi
Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 323–347.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10637564
Published: 01 October 2023
... supremacy, contributes to local patriarchies (Rubin 1975 ; Ebert 1996 ; Mies 1986 ). As a feminist scholar who has spent most of my life in the Global South, I am interested in the debates in feminist epistemologies on binary thinking in the context of the North-South debate, issues of representation...
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Editor’s Introduction

Ginetta E. B. Candelario
Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 297–305.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-11367024
Published: 01 October 2024
... Gahman. This “In the Trenches” piece presents the principles of “feminist development justice” articulated by grassroots social movements of the Global South “that are decidedly anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and anti-patriarchal” counterpoints to “‘modern’ development programs...
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Cutting across Imperial Feminisms toward Transnational Feminist Solidarities

Basuli Deb
Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 484–507.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8566111
Published: 01 December 2020
... but also by imperial women, that conditions Islamophobic representations of the other today, benefiting imperial women immensely at the cost of women of the elsewhere . Nonetheless, this article probes for possibilities of transnational feminist alliances between women of the global North and South...
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The Unforgetting of Claribel Alegría: Reckoning with Capitalist Catastrophe in El Salvador

Guadalupe Escobar
Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 360–383.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-11266404
Published: 01 October 2024
... in the Global South, turning to Alegría’s Alive reminds us of occluded histories of US colonial capitalism, most notably portrayed in Marina’s export-driven experience culminating not in upward mobility but in profound precarity. In June 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris visited Guatemala seeking...
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European BIPOC Feminisms

Nana Osei-Kofi, Shirley Anne Tate
Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 5–10.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10220447
Published: 01 April 2023
... Essay, “ Strategies of Visibilization ” looks at the representation of women artists from the Global South at Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna (Mumok) over a period of two decades (from 1998 to 2018). sandoval romero’s* Culturework contribution raises critical questions concerning...
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Women's world: A Transnational Network of Women WritersThe Targeting of Feminist Writers

Meredith Tax
Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 177–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-2.1.177
Published: 01 September 2001
... was needed to develop a feminist analysis of censorship and to concentrate on defending women writers. 1 We also wanted to work with feminist writers and editors in the Global South, few of whom had anything to do with PEN. As we became more truly transnational, our analysis deepened. Writers from Africa...
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Creating the Archive of African Women’s Writing: Reflecting on Feminism, Epistemology, and the Women Writing Africa Project

Abena P. A. Busia
Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 233–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7176406
Published: 01 November 2018
... structures, which exploit the continent and undermine its progress. This also enables African feminists to add their voices to the work of the other feminists from the global south who critique the Euro-centrism of white western feminists. That is, African feminism is political at every level...
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Traversing Disciplinary Boundaries, Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present

Mariam Georgis
Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 182–209.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10926936
Published: 01 April 2024
... of knowledge. Like the scholarship on Indigeneity in Palestine, Kashmir, and elsewhere in Asia, Assyrian Indigeneity expands the geographical boundaries of Indigenous studies to look at the processes through which Indigenous peoples in the Global South have experienced interrelated forms of colonialism...
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The Diversity of Women’s Studies and Women’s Histories: Reflections from South Asia

Ramya Sreenivasan
Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 11–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8913085
Published: 01 April 2021
... . Marian Aguiar , Arranging Marriage: Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2018 . Sonja Thomas , Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India , Global South Asia series , Seattle...
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Glorientalization: Specters of Asia and Feminized Cyborg Workers in the US-Mexico Borderlands

Long Thanh Bui
Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 129–156.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.13.1.129
Published: 01 September 2015
..." foster new fantasy myths about the laborer masses they employ in the "global South." Third-world women, particularly Southeast Asian and Latina women, were viewed as "naturally" suited for certain kinds of automated, soulless handiwork because of the corporal properties they appear to embody fast...
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Editor's Introduction

Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Meridians (2001) 1 (2): ix–xiv.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-1.2.ix
Published: 01 March 2001
... of Meridians,I plan to start a new project that looks at four successful examples of women's organizations in regard to employment, environment, peace, and sexuality in different regions of the global South in order to suggest some categories within which to imagine feminist futures and alternative development...
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