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Intersectionality in an Era of GlobalizationThe Implications of the un World Conference against Racism for Transnational Feminist Practices—A Conference Report

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Maylei Blackwell, Nadine Naber
Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 237–248.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-2.2.237
Published: 01 March 2002
...Maylei Blackwell; Nadine Naber Copyright © 2002 by Wesleyan University Press 2002 REPORT Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization The Implications of the UN World Conference against Racism for 'fransnational Feminist Practices-A Conference Report MAYLE! BLACKWELL AND NADINE NABER...
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Chinese Women Protesting Domestic Violence: The Beijing Conference, International Donor Agencies, and the Making of a Chinese Women's NGO

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Lu Zhang
Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 66–99.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2009.9.2.66
Published: 01 March 2009
... among the NGOs as a result of the Beijing Conference; 2) international donors' active economic cultivation of anti-gender violence activism among local women's NGOs; 3) participant activists' rationalization of the project as a worthwhile cause for their political commitment with their “vocabularies...
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Women's Resistance Conference—Excerpts from Speech

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Sunera Thobani
Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 283–288.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-2.2.283
Published: 01 March 2002
... are being bullied and targeted in schools, women are being chased in parking lots and shopping malls. We are all being scrutinized more, even as we come to conferences like this one-the extra scrutiny and security is amazing. As a woman of color, I could feel the coldness and hostility when I entered...
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Introduction: Conference-Making

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Andrea L. Humphrey
Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 87–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2004-4.2.87
Published: 01 March 2004
... of Iraq, based partly on the rationale ofliberating the Iraqi people from the human rights violations perpetrated by an abusive dictator. Nine days later, the second annual New England Women's Studies Association's (NEWSA) conference took place at Suffolk University's Law School, while across Tremont...
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The Seventh International AWSA Conference: Rationale and the Way Forward

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Nawal el Saadawi
Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 22–32.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2006-6.2.22
Published: 01 March 2006
...Nawal el Saadawi Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 NAWALELSAADAWI The SeventhInternationalAWSA Conference RationaleandtheWayForward Why the Conference? In May 2005 approximately two hundred men and women from four continents participated in a conference called "Women, Creativity...
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Figure 41. Group at YWCA Student Conference, Waveland, Mississippi, 1931. Beginning in the early twentieth century, the YWCA took up “colored work,” working initially through segregated associations. In the 1930s the organization took positions against lynching and the poll tax as well as for birth control. In 1946, the YWCA’s national board adopted an Interracial Charter that called on its three million members to promote racial integration within the organization and in the larger society. YWCA student groups were significant sites for developing leaders for civil rights and women’s movements. YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, SSC.

Group at YWCA Student Conference, Waveland, Mississippi, 1931. Beginning in...

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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 41. Group at YWCA Student Conference, Waveland, Mississippi, 1931. Beginning in the early twentieth century, the YWCA took up “colored work,” working initially through segregated associations. In the 1930s the organization took positions against lynching and the poll tax as well More
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Peace and the Barrel of the Gun in the Internationalist Women’s Movement, 1945–49

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Elisabeth Armstrong
Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 261–277.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7775685
Published: 01 October 2019
...Elisabeth Armstrong Abstract In 1949, at a conference instigated by the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) held in Beijing, China, the Asian Women’s Conference solidified an anticolonial, antifascist, and antiracist theory for organizing women transnationally. This transnational...
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Revisiting the Second Wave: In Conversation with Mary King

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Elizabeth Jacobs
Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 102–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2007.7.2.102
Published: 01 March 2007
... corners of the globe. On this occasion she had returned to the United Kingdom to present a research paper at the international conference “The United States and Global Human Rights” held at Oxford University. The timing of the interview was made pertinent by this context and by the fact that it was almost...
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Traveling Words: A Reflection on “Rotundamente negra” and Afro-Descendant Women's Cultural Politics

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Dorothy E. Mosby
Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 25–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.14.2.03
Published: 01 September 2016
... of technology, but also of the physical transnational flows of Afro-descendant women and their ideas at conferences, meeting one another, and finding common ground through political activism and poetry. Most significant is the meaning women attach to the poem and the places where it is interpreted, recited...
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War Frenzy

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Sunera Thobani
Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 139–148.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8565902
Published: 01 December 2020
...Sunera Thobani Abstract Following a speech against the war on terror the author presented at a conference on Violence Against Women, she was publicly attacked and threatened for “hate-mongering.” This paper was written in the aftermath of the controversy that followed. The author’s speech...
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Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) Presidium Committee Nairobi Preparations

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Destiny Wiley-Yancy
Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 174–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8913162
Published: 01 April 2021
...Destiny Wiley-Yancy Abstract The Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization’s (AAPSO) Presidium Committee on Women met to prepare for the United Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya. The committee aimed to tackle the impact of colonialism and imperialism and the ways...
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Figure 1. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 1. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Figure 1. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 1. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America More
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Figure 2. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 2. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the ...

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Figure 2. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 2. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America More
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Figure 3. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 3. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the ...

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Figure 3. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 3. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America More
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Figure 4. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 4. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the ...

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Figure 4. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 4. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America More
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Figure 5. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 5. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the ...

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Figure 5. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 5. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America More
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Figure 6. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 6. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the ...

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Figure 6. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 6. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America More
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Figure 7. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 7. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the ...

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in Born in Cuba, Made in the Americas: The Inter-American Commission of Women / Comisión Interamericana de Mujeres > Meridians
Published: 01 October 2020
Figure 7. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 7. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America More
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Figure 8. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 8. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the ...

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in Born in Cuba, Made in the Americas: The Inter-American Commission of Women / Comisión Interamericana de Mujeres > Meridians
Published: 01 October 2020
Figure 8. Muna Lee, “Report of Work Done by Committee on International Action of the National Woman’s Party, U.S.A., at Pan-American Conference on Behalf of Rights of Women,” February 21, 1928, p. 8. Doris Stevens Papers, MC 546, folder 94.3. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America More
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The Color of Violence: Violence Against Women of Color

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Andrea Smith
Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 65–72.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-1.2.65
Published: 01 March 2001
...Andrea Smith Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 CONFERENCE REPORT The Colorof Violence Violence Against Women of Color ANDREA SMITH A young American Indian woman was once gang raped by prominent members of an urban Indian community she and I lived in. When she sought justice...
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