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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 250–270.
Published: 01 October 2020
... American women’s arsenal of legal strategies included the “Lady Sambo,” an intentional racialized gender performance of feigned ignorance. By performing the “Lady Sambo”—an ignorant, servile black woman in need of protection—some poor black women mobilized their expertise in white racism to defend...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 102–129.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of gendered subjects who threaten to destabilize the sanctity of the Indian family, and who are therefore deemed undeserving of the law's protection. Copyright © 2009 by Smith College 2009 SHARMILA LODHIA Legal Frankensteins and MonstrousWomen: JudiciaNl arrativesofthe"FamiliynCrisis" Abstract Anti...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 109–136.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in 2015, which explores the the lives and experiences of Black women who have been victims of State violence. This discussion has been sweeping across the nation in an effort to address the plight of Black women who continue to lack social and legal protection in the criminal legal system (specifically...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 291–297.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that women are universally coerced into wearing this garment despite empirical research noting that women wear the niqab as an expression of faith. The treatment of niqab-wearing women requires close attention to the transnational routes of legalized anti-Muslim racism. cjwl-rfd@uottawa.ca Copyright...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 76–93.
Published: 01 April 2023
...’ complex experiences of insecurity and community. Intersectional vulnerabilities are those risks and rewards, derived from women of color activists’ positioning in relation to race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and legal status, which shape the possibilities of women of color’s activist labor...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 94–151.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Joyce C. Follet Abstract This essay offers a historical overview of African American women’s efforts to gain access to contraception, from the early stirrings of the campaign to legalize birth control in the 1910s to the eve of mass movements for racial equality and women’s rights in the 1960s...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 87–111.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of reproductive control, loss of parental rights, denial of legal rights and remedies, the devastating effects of isolation, and, of course, arbitrary discipline. Recent reports by international human rights organizations have begun to address the invisibility of women prisoners and to highlight the severity...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2001
... to eight women's prisons in the U.S. In general, although international human rights standards rarely have been applied within the context of the U.S., particularly in the legal arena, UN documents (such as the InternationaCl ovenanot nCivilandPoliticalRi9hts and theStandardMinimumRulesfor theTreatmenot...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 383–400.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and unfocused, but instead a legal instrument that, in its totality, permits and requires other laws that recognize and pay attention to gender-based violence, and that accordingly supports, regulates, and fosters the design of appropriate public policies. The Family Code, Work Code, Civil Code, and Penal Code...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 66–99.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., legal advocacy, and action research. Information programs include the Project's public documentation center, its website, and its miscellaneous media activism (such as making a documentary about domestic violence in China); training programs provide and conduct gender workshops for a full spectrum...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 204–212.
Published: 01 September 2000
... through the legal system gives a particular slant to these papers. They are a rich source for both research purposes and classroom use alike. Motley's papers were recently opened for research as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)-funded project that made possible the opening of several...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 219–254.
Published: 01 December 2020
... politics that took place most publicly in the 1983 and 1985 amendments has percolated throughout Canadian Native politics ever since. 28 The main impediment to any lasting legal reform for Native women seems to emerge and function within a discursive divide between gender and sovereignty. This has...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 99–122.
Published: 01 September 2014
... in a legal marriage to the ex-slave Union soldier Nelson Davis in 1869. Yetit is during the intervening eighteen years between these two unions that Tubman was most active in mobilizing freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad and serving in the Civil War. Never a biological mother, Tubman later supported...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 127–161.
Published: 01 September 2006
... agen- [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2006, vol. 7, no. r, pp. 127-16r] ©2006 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 127 das for legal reform were dismissed as not only irrelevant but dangerous to Indian sovereignty. The dismissals perpetuated sexist ideologies and discriminatory and violent...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Center (SWP),the only legal and social services program in the United States dedicated to those working in the sex industry, whether their involvement is coerced via trafficking, circumstantial, or chosen. SWPworks with approximately 200 clients annually. Over half of them meet the legal definition...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 16–24.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Altagracia Jean Joseph; Michelle Joffroy There is talk of a legal quota for women’s social and political participation. In reality, nevertheless, if we survey both civil society and government organizations we see that there is no real women’s participation. Instead, women are given purely...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 172–200.
Published: 01 March 2014
... that the state government or some portions of the state government in Nevada were encouraging, or should we say forcing and encouraging, women to get off welfare and become prostitutes. Because there is one county in Nevada in which it's legal. So I began to realize what that meant. I don't know ifI thought...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 56–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
... corporeality of citizenship in everyday practice." (Sheller 2012, 242) Introduction Who is eligible for citizenship? Which rights and obligations are included in the status and practice of citizenship? Is citizenship merely a legal concept that binds individuals to a nation-state? Or moving beyond that, does...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 157–185.
Published: 01 September 2015
... was finally legally resolved as an accident (Suresh Lal 2008 During my most recent fieldwork in Lahaul in 2011, I collected relevant ethnographic material2 to trace the shifting contours of the memory of her death. By focusing on how the memory of this case evolves in both official and community discourses...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 261–270.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., and a legally authorized eviction from political community apparent in such diverse legal projects as the Muslim travel ban in the United States and the banning of full-face veils (see Razack 2008 ; forthcoming ). Muslims have been targeted by white supremacist shooters in Quebec City, Canada and Christchurch...
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