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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Ranjoo Seodu Herr Abstract Third World and transnational feminisms have emerged in opposition to white second-wave feminists' single-pronged analyses of gender oppression that elided Third World women's multiple and complex oppressions in their various social locations. Consequently...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 September 2004
... "power polices desire," Emma Perez argues: "We are threatened once again by a reemergence of uncompromising nationalist movements in which feminisms are dismissed as bourgeois, in which queer voices are scoffed at as a white thing, in which anyone who does not sustain the 'family values' of modernist...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 57–82.
Published: 01 March 2005
... to the local, national, and global context of feminist activism in Pakistan may help move the analysis of Pakistani-and other Muslimfeminist discourses beyond notions of either an essentialist, global feminism modeled on the first world or false consciousness about the colonial origins of modern political...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 279–295.
Published: 01 November 2018
... in the struggle for gender and sexual liberation, thus strengthening solidarity across social justice movements. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 sex work African feminisms activism solidarity In 2013 a group of twelve sex workers in Cape Town, both cis and transgender women, established AWAKE...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 233–245.
Published: 01 November 2018
...’ hope was to generate new readings of Africa’s history by shedding light on women’s writing and, in doing so, change assumptions of how knowledge is shaped. Women Writing Africa archive canon memory knowledge African feminism Let me begin with my many beginnings. For the three codirectors...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2000
... COUNTERPOINTS ArnaAtaAidoo, EdnaAcosta-Belen, AmritaBasu,MaryseConde,Nell Painter, andNawalEl Saadawispeakon feminism, race,and transnationalism In thesummerof 1999, membersof theMERIDIANeSditorialgroupinterviewed jivefeministactivists,academicasndwriterswhoserveon ourfoundingadvisory...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 370–395.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Amina Jamal Abstract In many Muslim-majority societies, including Pakistan, liberal progressive subjects who espouse feminism and gender equality do so through the language of universal human rights and political secularism. This brings them into conflict not only with anti-secular rightwing...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 204–232.
Published: 01 September 2015
... College 2015 ANASTASIA CURWOOD Black Feminism on Capitol Hill: Shirley Chisholm and Movement Politics, 1968-1984 Abstract Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) conducted a long political career in the service ofblackfeminist ideas. Her 1972 runfor President is the most famous of her efforts, but she also served...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 189–203.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 Voices of Feminism: Linda Burnham Linda Burnham, activist, writer, and organizational consultant is presently Senior Advisor to the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA). The Alliance, which works to ameliorate labor conditions and create protections...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 40–64.
Published: 01 December 2016
... as the founders of the group saw as a personal, professional, social, spiritual, and otherwise holistic need, the group is a safe place for the women who AsHLEY PATTERSON, ET AL. BLACK FEMINISM AND CRITICAL MEDIA LITERACY 41 gather-mothers, sisters, partners, educators, high school students, undergraduate...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 343–350.
Published: 01 March 2018
... an expanded understanding of Black feminism and womanism, Black women can more fully engage in holistic health journeys. SHAWN ARANGO RICKS Normalized Chaos: Black Feminism, Womanism, and the (Re)definition ofTrauma and Healing Abstract This paper will discuss how the lens through which Black women view...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 373–381.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and their health. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 CHINYERE OKAFOR Black Feminism Embodiment: A Theoretical Geography of Home, Healing, and Activism Abstract This paper aims to uplift a story by a queer Black woman activist residing in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Using various narrative analysis techniques...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 471–479.
Published: 01 October 2019
... to formulate their own manifesto and ultimately adopt the Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists, which was first published in 2007 simultaneously in English and French. This paper reviews both statements and acknowledges their critical contributions to the evolution of Transnational Feminisms...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 439–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
...” is the centerpiece of her hip-hop feminism (Morgan 1995 , 152), Gwendolyn Pough argues that the labor of contemporary Black feminism should be articulating a “message of self-love” (Pough 2003 , 241), and bell hooks reminds us that “all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 271–277.
Published: 01 October 2020
... consciousness ideas, [and] was an antecedent to the women of color feminism that would emerge in the late twentieth century” (Materson 2009 : 36). The ICWDR archival piece that follows highlights how the internationalist, feminist, antiracist and decolonizing orientations of the council employed strategies...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 169–195.
Published: 01 December 2020
... . 1999 . The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History . Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press . Pérez Laura Elisa . 1999 . “ El desorden, Nationalism, and Chicana/o Aesthetics. ” In Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 191–213.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Kathleen Banks Nutter; Linda Chavez-Thompson KATHLEEN BANKS NUTTER AND LINDA CHAVEZ-THOMPSON Excerptsfrom the Voices of Feminism OralHistory ProjectInterviewwith LindaChavez-Thompson A NoteontheProject: TheVoiceos fFeminismOralHistoryProject,basedat theSophiaSmithCollection, SmithColleged...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 19–52.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Whitney A. Peoples Abstract This essay seeks to explore the sociopolitical objectives of hip-hop feminism, to address the generational ruptures that those very objectives reveal, and to explore the practical and theoretical qualities that second- and third-wave generations of black feminists have...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 September 2008
...-civil rights era. Grounded in the works of Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Jewelle Gomez, I examine how media representations of Ndegeocello coupled with her lyrics and music demonstrate the complexities and contradictions of “hip-hop feminism.” In particular, the 1990s represent...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2008
... with transnational and critical race feminisms in this way illuminates not only the operations of chick lit and the middle-class neoliberal subjects it produces, but also interrogates the ways in which hegemonic feminisms in the U.S. (as exemplified by chick-lit criticism) continue to disregard such questions. We...
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