...Joanne Barker Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 JOANNE BARKER Gender,Sovereignty,and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism In 1876, the Canadian Parliament amended the 1868 Indian Act to establish patrilineality as the criterion for determining Indian status and all...

..., that conceptions of gender are being constructed and contested as well. More specifically, the debates around the RedemptionSong monument suggest a confluence of sexual representation, race, and national identity construction in which the black Jamaican nation assumes a certain male identity. In this essay I...

... nation, and gender should be non-hierarchically linked as categories of analysis in order to understand the breadth of our oppression as well as the full potential of our liberation in the hope that one day we can belong as full members of our homes, communities, and tribal nations. Indeed, both...

...Julia Sudbury Abstract This article examines the experiences of black, gender-oppressed women, and transgender activists in the anti-prison movement in the U.S. and Canada. By foregrounding the experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming activists, the author makes visible the reality...

.... Until now-two months later-nothing has happened. So we're still in marrona9ei,n hiding. We have a driver pick us up and drop us off in secret.-Malya Villard, KOFAVIV Women are more vulnerable because of traditional gender roles combined with extreme poverty, social exclusion, and inequality, not just...

... of nation, class, race, gender, and religion in two very different national contexts, Pakistan and Canada. Copyright © 2013 by Smith College 2013 KHANUM SHAIKH Gender,ReligiousAgency,and the Subjectof Al-HudIanternational Abstract: ThefocusofthispaperisAl-HudaInternational,a Pakistan...

..., the intersections between our racial, gendered, and other identities become more evident. The identity of black womanhood is taught to us, as a social stigma, from an early age, and if that identity is tied to other non-privileged identities, then the social landscape is even more complicated and the exclusions...

... be located within the history of British colonialism and its intersections with white, Western, imperial patriarchy. This article does so by explicating the intersections of gender, race, and class in the post-1945 double-inscription of metropole and colony in British liberalizing social reform and national...

... as cultural politics. The way gender and class intersect in an African context continues to be an ongoing critical lever of analysis, despite some recent turns in the study of African gender systems that have evaded class as a critical variable. Copyright © 2015 by Smith College 2015 CAROLE BOYCE DAVIES...

... counterterrorism and their affiliated policies. Copyright © 2020 Smith College 2020 gender securitization feminism CVE Muslims National security? I think we [Muslim women] can be the first line of defense against radicalization. We are the ones watching our kids. We know when behaviors change...

... that the government has the resources necessary to implement the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Objective 5, which includes among its goals the ending of all forms of violence and discrimination against women. A just and comprehensive law against gender violence is what we need now. Ailynn...

...Joanne Barker Abstract Drawing from Native feminist theories and sovereignty studies, this essay examines the 1983 and 1985 amendments and the activism that led to their development and passage as an instance of the co-constitutive relationship of gender and sovereignty. By looking at how...

..., amplified by activists on the outside and international human rights organizations documenting prison conditions, highlight rampant violations of human rights behind walls. The gendered nature of racism, which fuels the growth of the prison industrial complex, results in experiences of violence, including...

... slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army until the end of World War II—evokes, as Fan ( 2018 ) writes, “images from Korea’s past as an occupied nation.” However, it is important to note that the issue of comfort women involves multiple layers of colonial and gendered violence. Herr (2013) argues...

.... In other words, racialization through gender and sex created a gendered discourse both visually and discursively displaying the gap between Western and Oriental cultures. For example, as early as 1888, Harper’s Magazine stated that “the difference between the Western and the Oriental civilizations...

... in Northampton, Massachusetts, she was a visiting scholar through Smith College’s Global Studies Center; professor of women and gender studies at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco; and former director of the Hillary Clinton Center for Women’s Empowerment. At the time, she was midway through her...

... investigates how the modern idea of sex also functions as skin technology. The politics of women of color are then explored, interpreting the relation between sex and gender as the “sex-skin/gender-mask structure,” isomorphic to the Fanonian black-skin/white-mask structure. The article further engages...

...Charmaine Pereira Abstract The aim of this essay is to interrogate gender relations in the wake of the Boko Haram insurgency in a way that recognizes continuities as well as discontinuities across multiple dimensions of social relations. The essay begins by outlining the changing trajectory...

.../ Akpan Jeremiah . 2017 . “ European Union Replies Pro-Biafra Agitators over Calls for BiafrExit .” Naija . https://www.naija.ng/701259-european-union-replies-pro-biafra-agitators-calls-biafrexit.html#701259 . Ali Nada Mustafa . 2015 . Gender, Race, and Sudan’s Exile Politics: Do We All...

...Angela Y. Davis; Cassandra Shaylor FSSAY Race,Gender,and the PrisonIndustrialComplex California Beyond ANGELA Y. DAVIS AND CASSANDRA SHAYLOR Women's Rights as Human Rights A central achievement of the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing was the emphatic articulation...