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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 90–126.
Published: 01 April 2021
... with local Islamic militant groups. This obscures their nuanced testimonies, political objectives, and multivalent agencies within the conflict zone. The author shows how Vishal Bharadwaj’s 2014 film Haider , an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet , disrupts such erasures to highlight Kashmiri women’s lived...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 267–296.
Published: 01 October 2023
... : 83 – 88 . Çakır Serpil . 2007 . “ Feminism and Feminist History-Writing in Turkey: The Discovery of Ottoman Feminism .” Aspasia 1 , no. 1 : 61 – 83 . Çelik Nihat , and İşeri Emre . 2016 . “ Islamically Oriented Humanitarian NGOs in Turkey: AKP Foreign Policy...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 57–82.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., citizenship, and democratization in Muslim societies. Then, with the proposition that feminism in Pakistan cannot be understood without considering its agonistic engagement with Islamization, I will locate both Islamization and feminism within the historical processes of nation-state formation...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 127–130.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Amrita Basu; Paula Giddings; Inderpal Grewal; Kamala Visweswaran Abstract The links among feminism, race, and transnationalism, which are key to the Meridians project, are also crucial to understanding the events of 9/11 and the war on Afghanistan. Some pieces in this archive provide feminist...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 370–395.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Pakistani feminism Muslim women secularism feminist politics During the course of my ongoing research on women’s struggles in Pakistan I was invited to give a talk at a major Islamic university for women whose stated mission is to promote Islamic knowledge while producing scholars who can...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 269–278.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., and Fulbright. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women s History. Aziza Ouguir earned her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 2013 and is currently working as a researcher in Morocco. Her work focuses on Islamic feminism, feminine Su sm, and gender issues...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 110–132.
Published: 01 April 2024
... within a broader, complex matrix of power. The article positions the Palestinian feminist anticolonial struggle in relation to wider debates on Black, transnational, and Third World feminisms to contextualize the movement. The article eventually turns to contemporary examples of intersectional feminist...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 323–339.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., political, and cultural milieu. The second part consists of translations from the Arabic of four editorials that Shafik wrote in her feminist magazine Bint al-Nīl . [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Smith College 2021 Islamic feminism modern Egypt Doria Shafik Bint al-Nil Doria...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 484–507.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Isobel . 2011 . “ ‘Blue Bra Girl’ Rallies Egypt’s Women vs. Oppression .” CNN Opinion , December 11 . http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/22/opinion/coleman-women-egypt-protest/ (accessed January 8 , 2016 ). Cooke Miriam . 2002 . “ Islamic Feminism Before and After September 11 th...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 28–51.
Published: 01 March 2003
...: Quadriga, 135-49. Coppola, Carlo. 1975."Urdu Poetry1935-1970:The ProgressiveEpisode." Ph.D. diss., Committee on Comparative Studies in Literature, Universityof Chicago. Gardezi, F.1990."Islam, Feminism and the Women's Movement in Pakistan: 1981-1991."SouthAsiaBulletinro (2): 18-24. Gazdar, Saeeda. 1991."1...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., December IL httpwww.cnn.com/2o11/t2/22/opinion/coleman -women-egypt-protest/ (accessed January 8, 2016). Cooke, Miriam. 2002. "Islamic Feminism Before and After September tith." Duke Journal of Gender Law 8: Policy 9: 227-35. BASULI DEB CUTTING ACROSS IMPERIAL FEMINISMS 185 Davis, Angela Y. 1989. Women...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 54–77.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of reason are beginning to reverberate across the Islamic corridors of power. Thus from Saudi Arabia the following report, in a characteristic Eurocentric manner, is entitled "Feminism in Flower?" and appeared in Timemagazine: In a country where women are not allowed to drive, let alone vote, Saudi Arabia's...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 11–38.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... Women’s rights activists have thus advocated for the modernist project of legal reform and have defended the relatively secular 1973 Constitution of Pakistan against attempts to Islamicize it (49). In place of the postsecularist lens, Zia chooses to focus on the interrelatedness of gender, work...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 68–84.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of the transnational networks, organizations, and ideas. In the essay that follows Iwant to ask how North-South tensions around the meaning of feminism and the nature of women's movements have changed. What new opportunities have emerged and what new tensions have surfaced? What is the relationship between...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 117–149.
Published: 01 March 2006
... with the articulation of twin discourses of secular nationalism and Islamic modernism (1995, 4), and what she described as "feminist consciousness" had its origins but also was simultaneously supported and 118 CHI KA OKEKE-AGULU challenged by trends in these discourses throughout the twentieth century. Coincident...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 151–173.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in India. Other accounts cast it as a “secession” and a betrayal by East Pakistan of West Pakistan. In these views, East Pakistan divested from an Islamic identity to embrace its more Hinduized culture. In a racially tinted discourse, ethnic Bengalis—referred to as a darker and smaller people—were seen...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 466–490.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as a dominatrix and her Muslim identity, questioning the boundaries of these categories. Using queer of color critique and feminist theorizing on BDSM, this essay examines how Muna demands recognition of her Islamic sexuality and perverse Islam, navigating tensions as she disidentifies with these categories...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 340–369.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that their “Muslimness” overshadows all other aspects of their lives. This essay also provides broader historical and geographical context against which to understand current forms of imperial and colonial feminism as well as transnational solidarities and networks. Specifically, it contributes to the emerging...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 491–503.
Published: 01 October 2021
... hesitated before I said, “Arab feminism is not an oxymoron.” She screamed, “What? We have been saying that since the nineties!” Indeed, Jo Kadi ( 1994 ) used this phrase in the introduction to the first anthology on Arab American feminisms. In the early 2000s, Amira Jarmakani ( 2011 ) used the concept...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 219–231.
Published: 01 November 2018
... two graduate courses, African Feminisms and Gender and Islam, and as an undergraduate course, Women, Gender, and Feminisms in Africa. As the African Feminist Initiative continues to grow, we hope to increase the number of course offerings. At present, Penn State offers several dual-degree PhD programs...
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