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Margaret Sanger (left) with her sister Ethel (Higgins) Byrne in court, Broo...
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 4. Margaret Sanger (left) with her sister Ethel (Higgins) Byrne in court, Brooklyn, New York, after indictment for violating obscenity laws for sending “indecent” materials through the mail in the form of her radical newspaper The Woman Rebel , 1916. Margaret Sanger Papers, SSC.
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Playing the “Lady Sambo”: Poor Black Women’s Legal Strategies in the Post–Civil War South’s Civil Courts
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 250–270.
Published: 01 October 2020
... their economic rights. In a white-dominated society predicated upon the denial of black rights, freedom, and dignity, poor black women seeking justice in civil court cases had to employ resistance strategies that did not openly challenge white authority. In white paternalism, a cultural mainstay...
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March for Drivers’ Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants, March 2019. Courte...
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Figure 1. March for Drivers’ Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants, March 2019. Courtesy of Jason Kotoch.
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Still from the music video for “Jihadageddon,” released 2018. Image courtes...
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Figure 3. Still from the music video for “Jihadageddon,” released 2018. Image courtesy of Laylatul Qadr.
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Photo of Alabama midwife’s hands by Sharon D. Blackmon, circa 1981. Courtes...
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Figure 35. Photo of Alabama midwife’s hands by Sharon D. Blackmon, circa 1981. Courtesy of Sharon D. Blackmon.
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Ember , inkjet pigment print on transparency film, 24 × 30 in, 2017. Courte...
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Figure 6. Ember , inkjet pigment print on transparency film, 24 × 30 in, 2017. Courtesy of Amanda Russhell Wallace.
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 109–136.
Published: 01 December 2016
... regarding the punishment of Black women). The article highlights both legal and extrajudicial punishment of Black women, from the nineteenth century, directly examining state executions and the lack of legal protection, as evidenced by the courts response to resistance as an act of self-defense...
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Legal Frankensteins and Monstrous Women: Judicial Narratives of the “Family in Crisis”
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 102–129.
Published: 01 March 2009
...: first, that the word "cruelty" was defined in a manner that was statutorily vague, which gave police and the courts arbitrary power, and second, that Section 498A's use of the concept of 114 MERIDIANS 9:2 harassment offended the principle of double jeopardy because dowry demands were also punishable...
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Guantanamo: A Feminist Perspective on U.S. Human Rights Violations
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 209–219.
Published: 01 March 2006
... but then released on the orders of the Bosnian Supreme Court in January 2002. As they left prison, they were handcuffed and forced into waiting unmarked cars by men who one of the group later claimed were Americans wearing Bosnian uniforms over their own attire. These newly released prisoners were flown...
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Taxation, Women, and the Colonial State: Egba Women's Tax Revolt
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 250–277.
Published: 01 March 2003
.... Sir Hugh Clifford, who succeeded Lord Lugard as governor in 1919, confirmed widespread and excessive use of court fines. In a confidential memo to Viscount Milner, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Clifford stated that the Resident of Abeokuta, Mr. Syer, had "conveyed to the Presidents...
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The Papers of Constance Baker Motley: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 204–212.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of these cases all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court where, between 1961and 1964, she won nine of the ten cases under her direction. In 1964 Constance Baker Motley entered the world of politics when she won a special election to the New York State Senate, representing the 21st Congressional District in Manhattan...
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Never Innocent: Feminist Trouble with Sex Offender Registries and Protection in a Prison Nation
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 31–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
.... 31 assaults by strangers, restrictions for convicted child sex offenders continue to escalate. Civil commitment laws, enacted in over a dozen states by 2008 and upheld by the Supreme Court in a 2005 decision, aim to geographically detain and segregate certain categories of sex offenders, indefinitely...
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Magic Tricks: The Politics of Memory, State, and Tribe in Lahaul, India
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 157–185.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., up until the point at which suddenly the case changed, from suicide to accident. Somewhere at this point, all the prosecution's witnesses turned hostile, the court decided to dismiss the case, and all possibility of further appeal was dismissed. This, despite two family members who testified...
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Insurgent Memories of Armed Struggle: Self-Representation by Female Ex-combatants in Peru
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 165–189.
Published: 01 April 2025
... of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, remedies from the state. According to Peruvian law at the time of the interviews in 2002, militant women like Marta had to serve prison sentences for treason. Before their interviews, commissioners asked them via written statements if they would like their names...
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The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Struggle against Impunity in Argentina
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 19–41.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., Theo van Boven, a Dutch diplomat and former director of the UN Center for Human Rights, wrote a report that fully validated the views of the Grandmothers and that was instrumental in some of the cases that the Grandmothers took to court. As he put it: [The children] live at present in family settings...
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Are Reindeer the New Buffalo?: Climate Change, the Green Shift, and Manifest Destiny in Sápmi
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 11–33.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., such as additional roundups, additional herding, or fencing. It also often leads to increased conflict between different communities and districts (Vistnes and Christian 2001 ; Skarin et al. 2015 ). There have been several court cases brought by Sámi reindeer herding districts against the wind industry...
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Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women’s Activism
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 219–254.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., and Blackfoot—challenged Bill C-31 in the Supreme Court, arguing that the bill was in conflict with the Constitution’s protection of “existing aboriginal and treaty rights” because, by obligating membership codes to conform to Canada’s Bill of Rights, it denied the rights of bands to determine their own laws...
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Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 127–161.
Published: 01 September 2006
... entitled to live on the reserve. In 1971, Lavellfiled suit. Her argument was that the Indian Act's status provisions violated Canada's Bill of Rights' prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex. Judge Grossberg of the Ontario County Court dismissed the case on the grounds that Lavell,despite...
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The Seventh International AWSA Conference: Rationale and the Way Forward
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 22–32.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., despite the continued resistance and efforts of Egyptian women that have led to slight improvements such as the right of a woman to ask for divorce by going to court; but this costs money, and efforts are only possible in the cases of women who are relatively well-off. In contrast, men can still marry...
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Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex: California and Beyond
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 87–111.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the prison. (George 1999 , 190) However, to understand the reach of the prison industrial complex, it is not enough to evoke the looming power of the private prison business. Of course, by definition, those companies court the state inside and outside the U.S. for the purpose of obtaining prison...
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