.... In addition to their Marxist/Maoist political activities, these young women challenged one of the foundations of traditional Thai nationalism built on notions of appropriate femininity and propriety: a gendered social contract. Violence is enacted when women challenge the gendered social contract and social...

...Kia M. Q. Hall Abstract What is the role of feminist scholar-activists in contemporary Black freedom movements such as Black Lives Matter? This article proposes a Transnational Black Feminist framework as a theoretical complement to grassroots activism in Black communities. The proposed framework...

...Joanne Barker Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 JOANNE BARKER Gender,Sovereignty,and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism In 1876, the Canadian Parliament amended the 1868 Indian Act to establish patrilineality as the criterion for determining Indian status and all...

... of their activism, in Brazil and beyond, could not be higher. Their personal journeys, courage, and vision, as shared in the talks registered here, clearly signal why active solidarity with Indigenous peoples and this new generation of women leaders in Indigenous territorial struggles is so critical...

... military response to revolutionary activity in Central America (LaFeber 1984 : 4). This came mere months after Ronald Reagan had run as a presidential candidate on a platform that cautioned against a Marxist Sandinista takeover of Nicaragua, which seemingly threatened neighboring El Salvador, Guatemala...

...Umayyah Cable Abstract This article focuses on the life experience and political activism of Palestinian American lesbian activist Huda Jadallah as a representative example of how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT/queer) Arab Americans came out to both queer communities and Arab...

..., and writings of Bengali Pakistani women active in this period, as well as from the archives—housed in Smith College’s Sophia Smith Collection—of one of the first formal US women’s groups to establish contact with East Bengali women leaders: the New York-based Committee of Correspondence. [email protected]...

... to the struggles of today, including issues of violence, mass incarcerations, and the election of the first black president of the United States. Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 What Would Harriet Do?A Legacy of Resistance and Activism A ConversatiownithBarbaraSmithand BeverlyGuy-SheftalMl, oderatedby...

... of"courting communities," of calling collectivities into existence through diverse forms of subversive spiritual, political, and cultural work. Anna Julia Cooper's visionary writings and activism exemplify this legacy of struggle by nineteenth-century black women. Part of a triad of women in a larger project...

...Bonnie Claudia Harrison Copyright © 2002 by Wesleyan University Press 2002 ESSAY Diasporadas Black Women and the Fine Art of Activism BONNIE CLAUDIA HARRISON WhyareAfrican-Americawnomen and ourideasnotknownand not believeidn? -Patricia HillCollins1991 z 0 Diasporadas A Diasporadais a woman...

... RecommendedClassTimes:Although these lesson plans are designed primarily for sixty-minute class periods, the classroom activities may need to be extended to provide students with ample time to interpret, discuss, research, and understand the material. Overview:This lesson plan uses the life and experiences of Harriet Tubman...

... madepossibltehroughthe.figureofa patrioticmother. Introduction Women across the world have been drawn in various nation-building processes and made to see themselves as formidable and active citizens through their nurturing activities as mothers. This depiction of women as symbolic bearers of the nation, as some scholars point...

...Joanne Barker Abstract Drawing from Native feminist theories and sovereignty studies, this essay examines the 1983 and 1985 amendments and the activism that led to their development and passage as an instance of the co-constitutive relationship of gender and sovereignty. By looking at how...

... and belonging, as well as analyzing the ejects of how queer, Black, transnational sharing of stories promotes survival and activism. Utilizing a Black feminist framework, this paper seeks to interrogate homeplace for queer people of color, as well as the spaces where activism lives, how it is enacted, and what...

... women’s civil rights activism and presents an important set of clues disclosing the underlying conditions—those that operated at the level of the unconscious—that prompted movement for social change. In so doing, Coming of Age in Mississippi allows us to look at once inward and outward in our historical...

... in the struggle for gender and sexual liberation, thus strengthening solidarity across social justice movements. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 sex work African feminisms activism solidarity 2 In this essay, I use the participants’ first names or pseudonyms to protect their identities...

...-profit project as an outcome of dynamic interactions among a constellation of both global and local feminist forces and agents. It shows that the formation of the project combines three interwoven processes, which include 1) the emergence of women's NGOs and the rise of anti-domestic violence activism...

...Lauren E. Shoemaker Abstract Literature by women of the third world is capable of expressing emergent feelings attached to objects and everyday activities, which reveal underlying economic processes. One such activity that inspires diverging feelings, the Caribbean vacation, reveals a continued...

... to generate inclusive spaces and a more just vision for the future. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Smith College 2023 Latinx mass violence activism gender sexuality On June 12, 2016, at 4:17 a.m., I awoke to the sound of a BBC alert on my phone that read: “Florida police confirm...

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