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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Basuli Deb Abstract Photography, not only by imperial men but also by imperial women, has played a significant role in portraying the Muslim woman as the apolitical exotic of orientalist fantasies. The legacy of colonial photography by European women travelers continues to haunt the media...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 484–507.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Basuli Deb Abstract Photography, not only by imperial men but also by imperial women, has played a significant role in portraying the Muslim woman as the apolitical exotic of orientalist fantasies, its legacies haunting the media of the global North even today. Imperial feminist representations...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 174–182.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Destiny Wiley-Yancy Abstract The Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization’s (AAPSO) Presidium Committee on Women met to prepare for the United Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya. The committee aimed to tackle the impact of colonialism and imperialism and the ways...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 129–156.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and the binaristic reframing of Orientalism found within the maquiladora system, where low-wage, brown, female factory workers in Tijuana must deal with an invasive foreign imperial presence that seeks to colonize, objectify, and exoticize them as docile, mechanized cyborgs similar to Asian women. As nonpermanent...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 261–277.
Published: 01 October 2019
... feminist praxis drew its movement demands and strategies from the masses of women in anticolonial movements, both rural and urban poor women. It also framed a two-fold theory of women’s organizing: it delineated one platform for women fighting imperialism within colonized countries, and another platform...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Laura Briggs Abstract Debt and imperialism have long been crucial questions for transnational feminism. This article attends particularly to recent and historical traditions of resistance in Puerto Rico and the wider Caribbean. It argues that part of the intellectual and political struggle has been...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 78–98.
Published: 01 September 2014
... exploitation and gender degradation. Female runaways and refugees reasoned that their dual desires could be achieved in Canada, both because slavery had been abolished there via the Imperial Act of 1834 and because Queen Victoria's reign, starting in 1837, gave the impression of greater esteem and rights...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 September 2015
... 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...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 114–141.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Miglena S. Todorova Abstract Recent scholarship on Black American women and feminists in the radical Left documents how these women's travel to the Soviet Union and other socialist countries in the twentieth century influenced their understanding of racism, imperialism, patriarchy, and capitalism...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 335–357.
Published: 01 October 2019
... with Indigenous feminisms and transnational feminisms might provide space to move our practices of solidarity against settler colonialism, imperialism, nativism, militarization, and environmental destruction into a generative space for Kānaka Maoli and non-Indigenous peoples alike. Copyright © 2019 Smith...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 139–148.
Published: 01 December 2020
... highlighted the history of U.S. foreign policy and sought to mobilize feminist opposition to the invasion of Afghanistan. The war, she argued, was reviving the colonial/imperial global divide and would be catastrophic. The author explores here how a number of carefully considered words used in the speech were...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 212–237.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and instrumentalization, what is additionally meaningful in these texts is that the more recent history of globalization to which women are subjected under late capitalism—a history within and on which these texts and their writers work—is shown to be coextensive (although not homologous) with the history of imperialism...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 114–146.
Published: 01 March 2013
... imperatives, Chicana feminist treatments of imperial trauma and queer erotics provide alternate modes of belonging, healing, and embodiment. AIMEE CARRILLO ROWE Vendidasy Devueltas: QueerTimes and ColorLines in Chicana/oPerformance Abstract: Thispaperexploresthetemporalstructuresthat shapeChicanasubjectivityT...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 389–409.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the Dragon (1988). Copyright © 2010 Smith College 2010 imperialism Orientalism xenophobia heteropatriarchy transnational feminism I have a vision. Of the Orient. That, deep within its almond eyes, there are still women. Women willing to sacrifice themselves for the love of a man...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 157–200.
Published: 01 September 2004
...] 1998, 182-83) [Meridians:feminism,race,transnationalism2004, vol. 5, no. r, pp. 157-200] ©2004 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 157 Modernism, Imperialism, Immigration: Rewriting Exile in the Contexts of the Post-World War II China-Taiwan-U.S. Triangle Winner of the 1990 American Book Award...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 261–270.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as superior and the heteronormative white family as the basis of political life. This is a racism that morphs as it travels transnationally and attaches itself to supremacist, colonial, and imperial projects everywhere. The special issue offers an explicit feminist analysis, paying attention to how racial...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 253–260.
Published: 01 October 2019
... rejects imperial feminisms and neoliberal constructs, and remains attuned to the nuances of power and privilege that shape political exchanges and can obscure non-EuroAmerican axes of knowledge. We see the potential of a radical transnational feminist framework to foreground the global solidarities...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 491–503.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the effect of turning attention away from the United States’ own imperial and anti-immigrant violence and covering up how the US war on terror—including the Muslim ban—depends on the very gendered and sexualized violence that the Muslim ban seeks to protect “Americans” from (Naber 2019b ). And now, more...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 239–260.
Published: 01 March 2004
... a racialized national subject haunted by the specter of colonialism, Hahn ultimately exposes the encrypted secret ofU.S. nation-statehood as imperialism. 4 Hahn's hauntology of orientalism punctures the myths of American exceptionalism, revealing the disavowed imperialism and racism at the heart of American...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 28–51.
Published: 01 March 2001
... imperialisms, as well as specific local cultural histories and traditions that shape the sexual agency of women are important for any account of global manifestations of sex work. The goal is to articulate a framework that will allow us to explore and theorize differences and commonalities in meanings...
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