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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 209–219.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Victoria Brittain Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 VICTORIA BRITTAIN Guantanamo AfeministperspectivoenU.S. human r(ghtsviolations The Play On 24 May 2004 in London our play Guantanamo,HonourBoundto Defend Freedomopened in Tricycle, a small London theater. It is a play using only...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Crystal DeBoise Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 CRYSTAL DEBOISE HumanTraffickingand SexWork: FoundationaSlocial-WorPkrinciples For over a decade, at three different agencies, I have practiced social work and case-management with survivors of human trafficking and sex workers. The first...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 392–416.
Published: 01 October 2024
... and moving beyond seeing their work as simply a laundry list of good deeds. This article demonstrates that the BSM transformed from a focus on the domestic civil rights of Black people in the United States into a consideration of human rights on a broad, international scale. Through an examination...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 268–270.
Published: 01 March 2002
... Copyright © 2002 by Wesleyan University Press 2002 IN SEARCH OF JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND A JUST PEACE BY WOMEN LIVING UNDER MUSLIM LAWS (WLUML) September 21, 2001 The network Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) wishes to extend its deepest condolences to the aggrieved, their families...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 102–108.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Barbara Schulman Copyright © 2004 by Smith College 2004 human rights came up to me and said that human rights is a framework that encompasses vision and ideology, and could be used to do the work. I appreciate their comments to the extent that obviously they are not restricting themselves...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 120–124.
Published: 01 March 2004
.... It is for liberation. If we're truly committed INTERNATIONAL FEMINISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS 121 to ending violence against women, then we must start in the hardest places, the places like jails and prisons and other correctional facilities. The places where our work has not had an impact yet we have to stop being...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 124–128.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Dazón Dixon Diallo Copyright © 2004 by Smith College 2004 For indigenous women and women of color in general, sexual and domestic violence are clearly the continuing effects of human rights violations perpetrated by U.S. state policy. Conclusion For too long, women of color have been forced...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 108–113.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Mary Bricker-Jenkins Copyright © 2004 by Smith College 2004 feelings it inspires, human rights offers a comprehensive range of rights covering everyarea oflife and addressing multiple forms of discrimination, and thus a natural platform for broad-based multi-issue organizing; obligations...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 129–136.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Laura H. Roskos Copyright © 2004 by Smith College 2004 FromtheCentetrotheMargins: TheRadicalizatioonfHumanRights intheUnitedStates AFTERWARD BY LAURA H. ROSKOS What can human rights tell us about power? Throughout the winter of 2002-03, women in the United States participated with women...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 151–173.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Elora Halim Chowdhury Abstract In this article the author builds on the idea of Bangladeshi national cinema as human rights cinema to explore its role in documenting and engendering understanding about women, vulnerability, and agency within a Muktijuddho gender ideology. Drawing from feminist...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 85–106.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and the native in the early essays as necessarily divisive post-colonial critique, but they read Kincaid’s final essay as an attempt to transcend such divisions. Many have lauded Kincaid’s call to throw off old categories and focus on shared (biological) humanity, yet this very category of “human” has been...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., which emphasizes the sameness of their humanity with the dominant Japanese rather than arguing for Ainu ethnic difference or their colonial history. At first glance, their performance and iterations seem detached from the discourse of Indigenous resistance. However, this article demonstrates how...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 201–207.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Julietta Hua Abstract Human trafficking has gained attention world-wide, and stories about victimization and violence help to define the so-called underground activities of trafficking. Rather than ask what counts as an instance of human trafficking, this essay considers how we come to see one...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 144–156.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Janelle Marie Evans Abstract While many branches of science have sought to understand—and to even cure—human bigotry, and thereby cure the deleterious results thereof, the champion most likely to prevail in this quest is the hybrid child of art and science: the literary and cinematic genre...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 351–362.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Courtney Bryant Abstract In her book Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength , Chanequa Walker-Barnes (2014) offers a theological analysis of the myth of the “StrongBlackWoman,” a trope that suggests that black women do not have the same human needs or experience pain like others...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 87–111.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., 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...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 417–438.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang Abstract This article analyzes how the colonial naming structure creates and sustains what it means to be human and nonhuman in coloniality. It begins with a preliminary reading of Sylvia Wynter’s interpretation of Frantz Fanon’s “white mask” as a cultural technology, where...
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Meridians (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 (2010) 10 (2): 42–65.
Published: 01 March 2010
... a human rights framework. Dubbing itself “the movement for reproductive justice,” this coalition connects reproductive rights to other social justice issues such as economic justice, education, immigrant rights, environmental justice, sexual right, and globalization, and believes that this new framework...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 26–52.
Published: 01 September 2015
... recasts. Reading the controversy surrounding this series as a reflection of its power, I work dialectically through considering key aspects of representations of witnessing the sadistic mistreatment of other human beings. Copyright © 2015 by Smith College 2015 CLAIRE RAYMOND The Crucible...
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