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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 (2021) 20 (1): 11–38.
Published: 01 April 2021
...: Social Reform and the Late Nineteenth-Century South Asian Novel , Flashpoints series , Evanston : Northwestern University Press , 2017 . Vanita Reddy , Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture , Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2016...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and abolitionist visions and explores the possibility of “non-reformist reforms” that take up the challenge of a radical, antiracist, gender justice perspective. The article posits the existence of a unique abolitionist vision and praxis, centered on the participants' direct experience of gender oppression...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 219–254.
Published: 01 December 2020
... for thinking about the kinds of social reformations that are needed to bring about social equity between and for men and women in Indian communities—an equity that is an essential aspect of decolonization and social justice for Native peoples in North America. The kind of political cross-talk over gender...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 62–90.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Khanum Shaikh Abstract The focus of this paper is Al-Huda International, a Pakistan-based Sunni Muslim women's organization working to bring about social reform through women's religious education. Created and led by urban, upper-class Pakistani women, Al-Huda approaches religious interpretation...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 94–120.
Published: 01 June 2016
... communities. It also explores why they are the main political actors interpreting the racial, gender, and class dynamics of urban development policies and fighting to reform projects of socio-spatial inclusion in cities. Bridging the scholarly gap between black feminist theorization and the grassroots...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 69–86.
Published: 01 December 2020
... that “colored women lack executive ability.” 3 See Muncy 1991 , especially chapter 3, for the discussion about the development of social work. 4 See Lasch-Quinn 1993 , 16; and Phillpott 1978 , 299, for the discussion of race attitudes of the White settlement house reformers. Works Cited...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2005
... just that, and proponents challenged a parallel state-led initiative to reform the existing constitutional dispensation. In the heat of the moment, the women's movement formed itselfin to a coalition, drawing women from across the differing political ideologies that make up the movement...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of what became known as the Negro Fellowsip League. The riot in the Illinois capital also had alerted a group of white liberals, many of them socialists, whose ties to traditions of progressive reform had earned them the moniker of neo-abolitionist. Among them was William English Walling, born...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 188–212.
Published: 01 March 2002
... an instantaneous site for multiple intersections-solidarity of a former British colony with the current "jewel" in the British imperial crown, Anglo-American rivalry for leadership of social reform in India, "enlightened" liberal Christian intervention in Hindu India's social matters. Ata personal levelthe...
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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 (2020) 19 (1): 209–236.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Valley Workers Center (PVWC) is an organization committed to building the collective power of workers and immigrants. 1 Its strategy aims to bridge reforms and revolution. We organize grassroots campaigns to win reforms that will improve the lives of workers and immigrants, from recovering stolen...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 95–127.
Published: 01 March 2001
... laboratory in 1936, in 100 ABHA SUR the midst of his most turbulent year at the institute, while Sunanda Bai and Anna Mani followed a few years later, in 1939 and 1940, respectively. Colonialism, Social Reform, and Women's Education The entry of women into higher education depended crucially upon the social...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): v–viii.
Published: 01 March 2018
... organize and respond, providing direct care, nurturing bodies and spirits, demanding reform, and launching revolutions. Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 16, no. 2 (2018): v viii. Copyright @ 2018 Smith College. doi: ro.2979/meridians.16.2.02 V It is not surprising, therefore, that the womanist...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 271–277.
Published: 01 October 2020
... African American women, was actively engaged in a variety of political agendas and social reform efforts locally and nationally. Situating discrimination of African Americans across the United States into the larger context of ongoing global European and American racialized colonial oppression...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 114–141.
Published: 01 September 2018
... to reform and modernize Romani and Muslim women by cultural eradication, forced adoption of Christian personal names, sterilization, boarding schools, and participation in waged work considered to be "socially useful labor." The logic of these policies extended to women in the Global South, wherein...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of women in the country. Their response to what they perceived as a girl hawker problem was to campaign for stringent restrictions against hawking by girls in the city of Lagos. Beginning in the early 1920s elite women reformers had been writing petitions to the Lagos Colony government to “prohibit...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 427–452.
Published: 01 October 2020
... recognize how race intersects with criminal justice and economic justice, respectively, BLM’s critique of racism shows how racial logics inform putatively liberal thought, policy, and practices. Clinton later articulated a more substantive platform for criminal justice reform, and Sanders added racial...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 99–122.
Published: 01 September 2014
... standpoint, being unwed allowed the women to travel, write, lecture, and contribute financially to organized reform apart from managing marriages, though some of them maintained households for extended family. Yetin other regards, these women's public visibility left them open to particular instances...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 54–77.
Published: 01 March 2006
..." refers to the dynasty of the great Islamic reformer Shaykh 'Uthman b. Muhammad Fodiye (1754-1817)-Asma'u's father-whose early nineteenth-century jihad resulted in the radical transformation of the old Habe, or Hausa, states of present-day northern Nigeria from a domain of crass corruption...
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