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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 174–182.
Published: 01 April 2021
... they disproportionately impacted the lives of women. The AAPSO wanted to do this through a series of workshops focusing on the status of women in apartheid South Africa, the destabilization of women and children in Africa and Asia, the burden of debt in developing countries, and the subversive role of transnational...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 191–200.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of bondage, i.e. apartheid, enslavement, and Jim Crow laws. Both groups engaged in the struggle against these systems, and continue to struggle against their long-term effects, both physical and psychological. It is well known that for women who have participated in political and social movements...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 113–119.
Published: 01 March 2004
... entailed an "equitable distribution of social necessities" (Kaplan 1997, 8). The strategies South African women have used to advance gender democracy during political transition include politicizing gender, constructing and advocating women's interests in the context of mobilization against the apartheid...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 130–152.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Consciousness Movement (BCM) emerged in the 1960s as a response largely to the political vacuum created by the relentless apartheid state repression and bannings that characterized the postSharpeville era (Buthelezi 1991; Rive 1982; Wilkinson 1992). After the massacre at Sharpeville, the National Party...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 66–90.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... Their freedom to work is restricted; they are under constant police surveillance; their homes, telephones and cars are often bugged and their mail is intercepted. ("Non-Persons" 1982, 43) Although she officially remained banned until apartheid ended in 1989, Winnie Mandela was well-known in the United States...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 237–248.
Published: 01 March 2002
... racism, religious intolerance, reparations, labor, trafficking, and globalization. As a venue, South Africa symbolized both a victory over apartheid and how tenacious aspects of this virulent form of systematic racism can be. In South Africa, anti-apartheid activists emphasized that, without economic...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 110–132.
Published: 01 April 2024
... for committing the crime of apartheid from organizations like Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Criminal Court have indeed instigated an unparalleled alteration in the global discourse on the matter. Largely, this shift comes as a result of the increasingly chauvinistic discourse...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 244–246.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Gabeba Baderoon Copyright © 2019 Gabeba Baderoon 2019 virgin Muslim Thelma and Louise apartheid existence My parents only bought stuff in bulk or on discount, No Name brands. They saved up for years, saying no to all our requests, then bought everything in cash, even the car...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 68–84.
Published: 01 September 2000
... organized demonstrations locally, including one in Amherst, MA, where women marched through the town commons with banners in their hands and pieces of mesh fabric pinned to their lapels to evoke the burqua(veil). Terming the campaign an attempt to stop "gender apartheid" in Afghanistan, the coalition...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 14–16.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Gabeba Baderoon Copyright © 2019 Gabeba Baderoon 2019 virgin Muslim Thelma and Louise apartheid existence You and your sisters ask your mother if it hurts on your wedding night when your hymen is broken and she answers, it’s a membrane and it doesn’t break, just gets nudged...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2019
... things with valued “names” while others must live with “no name” brands, with “not matter[ing] at the level of what we wore and ate” (Baderoon, 244). Living under apartheid, these therefore were not just personal sacrifices; they reflected and reproduced “the power of that negative [non-white...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 87–93.
Published: 01 March 2004
...," Leslie Hill describes how women were able to braid claims based on their gendered social roles as wives, mothers, and sustainers of family and kinship 90 LAURA H. ROSKOS AND ANDREA L. HUMPHREY networks into a definition of citizenship, which then came to be seen as integral to post-apartheid democratic...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 156–174.
Published: 01 April 2024
... (Belich 2001 : 478). Figure 3. Bastion Point: Day 507 (1980). Figure 3. Bastion Point: Day 507 (1980). The South African Springbok Tour in 1981 was considered to support South Africa’s system of apartheid by some New Zealanders. When the government ignored the calls to cancel the tour...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): v–vii.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., as Linda Horwitz and Catherine Squires note in "We Are What We Pretend to Be Mrs. Mandela, though a courageous anti-apartheid activist in her own right, was seen in the U.S. popular media mostly as a "rhetorical widow": a woman whose authority is derived from a husband who is unable to speak for himself...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 230–237.
Published: 01 March 2018
... my body resist your death traps watch me rise watch my rebirth watch us rise up from this new Jim Crow JESSICA CARE MOORE WE WANT OUR BODIES BACK 235 from these new unspoken apartheid laws we want our bodies backs we want our bodies backs we will take them. protect them. raise them. remind you...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 392–416.
Published: 01 October 2024
...). DST also worked with TransAfrica, a lobbying organization comprised of twenty-four religious, political, civil rights, and labor groups that joined together to address issues in Africa and the Caribbean (Delta Sigma Theta Sorority 1983 : 4). DST also held an anti-apartheid drive in support...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 189–203.
Published: 01 March 2016
... to through the work in the Venceremos Brigade. We also celebrated South African Women's Day as a way to raise issues of the apartheid regime and how the workings of the apartheid regime affected women in particular. Every August 8th we would invite South African women to talk about the issues they faced. LR...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 297–322.
Published: 01 October 2023
... theorists have called “caste apartheid” (Soundararajan 2022 ), anti-caste Brahmins cannot simply think and imagine our way into a casteless existence. Our claimed space in anti-caste writing seems utterly useless in bringing about a caste-annihilated reality—tied as our lives stubbornly remain to material...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 177–182.
Published: 01 September 2009
... felt during the heyday of the movement in Spain in the 1930s. It must have been part of what has motivated and energized the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, and freedom struggles everywhere. I do not mean to suggest that this election campaign was a freedom struggle of the same magnitude...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 397–412.
Published: 01 October 2022
... Israel “a medical apartheid” state (Rabbani 2021 ). These measures included Israel’s obfuscation of Palestinian health-related activities in their communities (e.g., the destruction of sanitization stations in Hebron), refusing to improve poor health-care accessibility for Palestinians, failing...