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Meridians (1 March 2002) 2 (2): 237–248.
Published: 01 March 2002
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Meridians (1 March 2009) 9 (2): 66–99.
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 of...
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Meridians (1 March 2002) 2 (2): 283–288.
Published: 01 March 2002
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Meridians (1 March 2004) 4 (2): 87–93.
Published: 01 March 2004
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Meridians (1 March 2006) 6 (2): 22–32.
Published: 01 March 2006
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
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 as for
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Meridians (1 September 2016) 14 (2): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2016
... impact 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...
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Meridians (1 March 2007) 7 (2): 102–116.
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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Meridians (1 November 2018) 17 (2): 296–308.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... Throughout this time, sundry organizations, communities, and nations joined forces with the UN to organize, direct energy and resources toward women’s struggles, and unite in global conferences in Mexico City and Copenhagen (United Nations 1985 , 3). From the beginning, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs...
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Meridians (1 November 2018) 17 (2): 219–231.
Published: 01 November 2018
... a research conference at Howard University organized by the Association of Black Women Historians (Terborg-Penn 1996 , xix). This lecture provided the analytical scaffolding that would frame intellectual discussions about feminism in Africa for years to come. In the essay that grew out of this...
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Meridians (1 November 2018) 17 (2): 215–218.
Published: 01 November 2018
... white, and sundry other heritage Smith women. CSAC was an ad hoc radical multicultural group of students committed to addressing institutional racism and classism at Smith. Side by side across differences and divides, we organized meetings and protest rallies, held press conferences, provided radio...
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Meridians (1 November 2018) 17 (2): 279–295.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... ). The alliance was established during the first African Sex Worker Conference, held in Johannesburg in 2009 (NSWP n.d. ). Currently ASWA comprises just over seventy-five member organizations from twenty-three countries across the continent. Sisonke and ASWA welcomed the prospect of collaborating on...
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Meridians (1 November 2018) 17 (2): 338–358.
Published: 01 November 2018
... some of the complex political and embodied strategies that such protesting women have used. In May 2017 Nigerian soldiers chased the attendees of an Indigenous People of Biafra women’s conference from the stadium they were using as a venue. A nineteen-minute video circulated on YouTube depicting...
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Meridians (1 September 2018) 17 (1): 51–81.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... Not only did their work result in a published script, but it was performed perhaps a dozen times in the spring of 1968 in Bay Area public schools, the Fisk Writers Conference, and elsewhere. Afterward the students’ yearly performances of the pageant-drama became a course in the Afro-American studies...
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Meridians (1 September 2018) 17 (1): 133–149.
Published: 01 September 2018
... him to abandon his “cloth wife” for another who, though not as educated as he is, is educated enough for the kind of social life he envisages for himself. Dove’s campaign eventually paid off: “There was a Convention People’s Party Conference and the subject of Registered and Unregistered wife was...
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Meridians (1 November 2018) 17 (2): 415–431.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Patricia . 2016 . “ Becoming Contemporary African Feminists: Her-stories, Legacies and New Imperatives .” Paper read at the FES Conference , Maputo . Motsemmi Nthabiseng . 2004 . “ The Mute Always Speak: On Women’s Silences at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission .” Current Sociology...
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Meridians (1 April 2019) 18 (1): 94–151.
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 as for...
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Meridians (1 September 2018) 17 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 September 2018
... vision serves as a tool to situate the Antillean not just within her own geography but within the wider imaginative geography that Césaire calls “Antilles-Africa”: “It is Africa herself, across the Atlantic and across the centuries since the slave ships, who confers upon her Antillean children that...
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Meridians (1 November 2018) 17 (2): 246–268.
Published: 01 November 2018
... marriage is believed to confer. At the same time, the belief that men should be providers for the family is strong. Polygyny is widespread, often justified by men as their entitlement according to Islam. In differing ways, these normative expectations are woven into the themes addressed below. There...
