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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 291–297.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Natasha Bakht Abstract Bans or attempts to ban the niqab have traveled global circuits, with disastrous consequences for Muslim women who wear the face veil. These women have evoked a repugnance that insists on erasing them from public spaces. An analysis of niqab bans reveals that: (1...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Abosede George Abstract This essay discusses girl-saving campaigns in Nigerian history, focusing on the two that have been most extensively documented: the girl hawker project of the early twentieth century, which climaxed with the 1943 passage of the first hawking ban in Nigeria...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 491–503.
Published: 01 October 2021
... technologies to immigration bans—one thing has not changed: even the newest and most improved forms of anti-Muslim racism are justified by recycled arguments about “Islamic sexual savagery.” This is why I would argue that it is imperative to affirm, louder than ever before, the foundational arguments that anti...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 66–90.
Published: 01 September 2011
... elevatedplatformfrom whichwomencanspeak,it alsotransformswomenfrom credibleindividualsin theirownri9htto theroleofsimplemouthpieces. Introduction Winnie Mandela was banned by the South African government in 1962. Timereported: Banning is one of the most chilling methods for suppressing dissent in South Africa...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 261–270.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., and a legally authorized eviction from political community apparent in such diverse legal projects as the Muslim travel ban in the United States and the banning of full-face veils (see Razack 2008 ; forthcoming ). Muslims have been targeted by white supremacist shooters in Quebec City, Canada and Christchurch...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 263–294.
Published: 01 April 2024
... the generational birthing skills that do not fit the Western biomedical archetype. The call to either ban or Western–medically train traditional birth attendants in Africa is also premised on the assumption that traditional attendants are unskilled. Based on the Western medicalized paradigm of the Safe...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): ix–xiv.
Published: 01 March 2001
... States, the Middle East, and Europe. Genital mutilation has been banned by Senegal due to the efforts of women's organizations but reconfirmed as a legitimate cultural practice elsewhere. In rural Bangladesh, often as a result of development projects, women who seek to be economically independent appear...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 82–96.
Published: 01 September 2018
... with dreadlocks. The agency resolved to retrain employees on antidiscrimination policy and practices. See Julia Craven, “TSA Says It Will Stop Touching So Many Black Women’s Hair,” Huffington Post, April 3, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/03/tsa-hair-pat-downs_n_6996790.html . The U.S. Army banned...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): v–vi.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of the Egyptian government. In 1991 the organization she founded-the Arab Women's Solidarity Association, which had nearly three thousand members-was banned after it criticized the U.S. involvement in the first Gulf War; and in 2004 she campaigned for the presidency ofEgypt. Indeed her life and work-undeterred...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 250–277.
Published: 01 March 2003
... to increase production and lower the cost of production during this period of sustained worldwide economic crisis. The state responded by banning the caustic soda and synthetic dye and subsequently arresting dyers for using them. Dyers in turn held mass protests and hired lawyers to represent them, leading...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 414–442.
Published: 01 October 2021
... justice system subjects Muslims to surveillance, deportation, bans, and bombs. In what follows, I begin by providing a brief overview of the development of hate crime laws in the United States and why they have failed to be applied to these two Muslim youth murder cases, thus gaslighting anti-Muslim...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 370–395.
Published: 01 October 2021
... be banned in parliament. They should be banned in the parliament of Pakistan! Beyond reacting to recent history, many of my interlocutors, like South Asian feminists generally, also claimed a longer social-cultural history that entangles with and even prevails over the political and religious...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 298–322.
Published: 01 October 2021
... ‘cultural tourist’ to the list of flaws” (Kang 2014 ). The aforementioned report clearly parallels the language of the so-called Muslim ban executive order (Trump 2017 ), which sought to exclude “those who engage in acts of bigotry or hatred (including ‘honor’ killings [and] other forms of violence...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 267–296.
Published: 01 October 2023
... pious women, typified in the figure of the veiled university students who especially in the late 1990s vigorously fought for their right to attend classes wearing their banned headscarves, that helped prepare the ground for AKP’s rise to power. The public presence of these educated, urban, and pious...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 8–13.
Published: 01 April 2019
... thinking. this is no birthday wish in smoke. this is existence or absence. no joke. 4 between you and me, we knew it would never work. just because the singing of the whales had caused bumper stickers and rallies and international bans on their murder and the criminalization of the exploding...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 323–339.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that will enact the necessary laws to protect the mother and the child, curtail divorce, and ban polygamy, is the Parliament in which the woman is an active member. Only the woman is able to debunk many of our obsolete traditions that are not compatible with Islamic shariʿa law [ aḥkām al-sharʿ ] and its essence...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2010
... in colors of the rainbow, Ray Ban dark glasses and knock-off Coach and Prada. In a high room across the road, above carts with chaat and spiced tea, Someone sitting in a chair feels he is slowly going blind. Over and over he runs his fingers over a page Spelling out the names of God In exquisite script read...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 40–65.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., cooking oil, and cheese were banned (Latin American Bureau 1984). However, attempts to produce substitutes for them within Guyana failed. When the economic crisis deepened, Guyana turned to the International Monetary Fund for assistance. But the structural adjustment policies instituted in the early 1980s...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 148–163.
Published: 01 March 2016
... a national widespread intolerance for interracial marriages. By the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the fears of racial mixing had grown to the extent that, in 1913, George Chauncey pointed out that forty-one states had extended the legal ban (63). It wasn't until 1967 that the Supreme Court...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 325–330.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., her name withheld by the courts, has been charged with nine counts of murder (Kiplagat 2017 ). There are calls for stricter punishments for students, including from a member of Parliament who said the “Ministry of Education has made it difficult for teachers to punish errant students by banning...
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