..., the term Amtjricanidadoer "Amefricanity" references both the black diaspora and indigenous populations of the Americas, signaling their histories of resistance as colonized peoples. Like Gonzalez and contemporary black Brazilian feminist theorist Claudia Pons Cardoso, a contributor to this volume, we...

...Kia M. Q. Hall Abstract What is the role of feminist scholar-activists in contemporary Black freedom movements such as Black Lives Matter? This article proposes a Transnational Black Feminist framework as a theoretical complement to grassroots activism in Black communities. The proposed framework...

...Chukwuma Azuonye Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 CHUKWUMA AZUONYE Feminist or SimplyFeminine? ReflectionosntheWorkos f NanaAsma'u, a Nineteenth-CentuWryestAfricanWoman Poet,Intellectuaal,ndSociaAl ctivist Introduction Nana Asma'u, a remarkable West African Islamic woman poet...

...M. Cristina Alcalde Abstract In this essay, I draw on my fieldwork in Lima, Peru to critically explore the power relationships within my own feminist research and practice and illustrate what feminist research in one's own society might include. I pay special attention to my roles as academic...

... indigenous women and men should develop a Native feminist consciousness based on the assumption that struggles for social autonomy will no longer include the denial of Native women's gendered concerns and rights. Copyright © 2007 by Smith College 2007 RENYA RAMIREZ Race,TribalNation, and Gender...

...Erica R. Meiners Abstract Using recent work by anti-prison theorists and community-based activists who are working against the prison industrial complex, this article links prison abolition to feminist frameworks to question escalating sex offender registries and community notification laws...

...Debra L. Schultz Copyright © 2010 by Smith College 2010 DEBRA L. SCHULTZ SupportingActivistWomen: BlanchWe iesenCookandFeminisBt iography Referred to as Eleanor Roosevelt's "ferociously feminist biographer" by NewYorkTimescolumnist Maureen Dowd (Dowd 1999), Blanche Wiesen Cook describes...

..., a heterogeneous set of transnational cultural flows of Indian beauty and fashion, first in order to map the transnational dimensions of Indian fashion and beauty, which have remained under-explored within existing feminist scholarship on cultural economies of Indian fashion and beauty. Second, the essay shifts...

... RADICAL ANTI-RACIST FEMINIST PoLITICS 47 What are usually labelled as black women's movements-later 'Afro women's movements'-in Latin America are part of the so-called "new social movements" which arose in the 1970s and gained increased traction in the 1980s. Their novelty was in the fact...

...Aurora Vergara Figueroa; Katherine Arboleda Hurtado Abstract In this political statement, we summarize the major motivations and agenda of the First International Seminar “Afrodiasporic Feminist Conspiracy”. This event was held in Cali, Colombia, on June 24 and 25, 2011. The rationale...

... of the tendency to over-emphasize the experiences of English-speaking Black women" within the global project ofBlack feminist studies, Afro-Latin American women's voices have been "muted," despite the fact that they "have made significant theoretical and philosophical interventions that could potentially change...

... the symbolic relationship between quilombos (Afro-Brazilian maroon societies) and black subjectivity encourage us to re-imagine the meaning of Black liberation from a transnational, Black feminist perspective. This essay reflects on her life and intellectual contributions, making the argument that Nascimento...

...Cassandra Fetters Abstract Taking feminist relational psychoanalyst Jessica Benjamin's ideas of “mutual recognition” as foundation, and studying the female relationships—mothers and daughters and friends—in Toni Morrison's Sula, I trace the complexities of the psychological development of Nel...

... of the global North even today. Such imperial feminist discourse on women in Egypt was blatant in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's December 2011 announcement of the National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security at Georgetown University, as well as in the rhetoric of Laura Bush, Cherie Booth...

... structures and practices. Drawing heavily upon the work of Patricia Hill Collins, this article defines and explains black feminist critical pedagogy arguing that it is a critical knowledge project that generates knowledge and creates theories that allow for analysis, critique, and evaluation of how black...

... challenge but, as scholars, we are committed to developing research agendas and writing and teaching resources that advance liberatory educational possibilities for non-dominant and marginalized communities. We center this work firmly within the Black feminist tradition, drawing heavily upon the historic...

...Stephanie Troutman; Ileana Jiménez Abstract This coauthored article examines the ways in which teaching Black feminism in both high school and undergraduate contexts can inspire Black feminist activism in young Black women and girls. Using the work of bell hooks as a foundation for designing...

... status tend to foreclose their access to world citizenship. This selection of Black feminist scholarship and creative work accepts as a general premise that Black women are and have been migratory subjects-as Carole BoyceDavies's groundbreaking BlackWomenW, ritin,gandIdentity:Mi,grationosftheSubject...

...Cornelia Möser Abstract Over the past few years, right-wing political groups in France have made sexuality a focus of their concerns. Since the debate about political lesbianism in 1980, feminist research on sexuality in France has been markedly limited to research on abortion, contraception...