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Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 1. “The Struggle for Women Suffrage,” by Najla Saab, 1955. Ruth Frances Woodsmall Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, p. 1.
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Figure 2. “The Struggle for Women Suffrage,” by Najla Saab, 1955. Ruth Frances Woodsmall Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, p. 2.
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Figure 3. “The Struggle for Women Suffrage,” by Najla Saab, 1955. Ruth Frances Woodsmall Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts, p. 3.
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Figure 4. “The Struggle for Women Suffrage,” by Najla Saab, 1955. Ruth Frances Woodsmall Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, p. 4.
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 19–41.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Rita Arditti Copyright © 2002 by Wesleyan University Press 2002 ESSAY The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Struggle against Impunity in Argentina RITA ARDITTI Wemust notforgetor besilent.Ourduty isto keepthe memory,to keep talkingtirelesslyaboutthehorrorosftheArgentingeenocideW...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 204–249.
Published: 01 March 2003
... Nepal experienced no nationalist struggle to oust colonizers, it shares the experiences of economic and social intervention and dependency made possible by colonial histories and to which Alexander and Mohanty have referred as "processes of recolonization" (1997, xvii). As Stacy Leigh Pigg (1993) has...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 202–208.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Figure 1. “The Struggle for Women Suffrage,” by Najla Saab, 1955. Ruth Frances Woodsmall Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, p. 1. ...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 353–381.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Selina Makana Abstract The assertion that the mid-twentieth century Black freedom struggles across the African diaspora was a masculine era is one that continues to strike a chord with many African women whose voices have remained absent from the rhetoric on national liberation struggles across...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 360–382.
Published: 01 October 2020
...—devastated the community. And the interventions by the colonial state and medical establishment proved at times meek, complicit, and ineffective. In 2003, unruly colonial citizens evicted the Navy. Their actions were part of a struggle for the survival and well-being of the Viequense island community...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 133–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
... nation-state to explore the knowledge evolving from Sámi feminists engaged in the anti-mining struggle. Here, I argue that Indigenous epistemes—that is, the foregrounding of relationality and interdependency between land, humans, nonhuman beings, and the natural environment—are foundational...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 151–173.
Published: 01 April 2021
... on at once the national struggle for self-determination and the gender struggle against patriarchal cultural norms. The film opens up new ways of imagining the category birangona and elicits a deeper appreciation of differentiated agency, vulnerability, and humanity. 1 Bengali Muslims are an ethnic...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 117–141.
Published: 01 March 2007
... brings together intersectionality and whiteness studies frameworks as well as the scripts they generate, models a critical pedagogy that exposes race–gender constitution as a relational dynamic, characterized by racialized discursive struggle. The intentional juxtaposition of incompatible perspectives...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 22–40.
Published: 01 March 2007
... indigenous women and men should develop a Native feminist consciousness based on the assumption that struggles for social autonomy will no longer include the denial of Native women's gendered concerns and rights. Copyright © 2007 by Smith College 2007 RENYA RAMIREZ Race,TribalNation, and Gender...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by the mainstream yet collectively revalorized through historical processes of community-based struggle. In a horizontal move toward resistant sociality, I argue that passing-as-if functions as a maneuver for political company by those who are racialized as non-white yet who do not belong to groups that have...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by the Japanese mainstream media against which these women have struggled for decades. The production of the text also worked to reconstruct and renew the women's own memories in a positive light and to create a new form of community of remembrance. This essay aims to shed light on both the literary...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 123–141.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to the struggles of today, including issues of violence, mass incarcerations, and the election of the first black president of the United States. Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 What Would Harriet Do?A Legacy of Resistance and Activism A ConversatiownithBarbaraSmithand BeverlyGuy-SheftalMl, oderatedby...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 94–120.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Keisha-Khan Y. Perry Abstract In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, rarely are black women, especially poor black women, considered leaders of social movements, much less political theorists. While Afro-Brazilian women are at the very heart of the struggle for urban housing and land rights...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 30–49.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Sueli Carneiro; Regina Camargo Abstract This essay seeks to define the course of Brazilian black women's struggle within the national feminist movement. It questions the classic feminist perspective founded on a supposedly universal notion of woman that takes Western white women as its paradigm...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 204–232.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of national elected office at the same time that black feminists were institutionalizing their activism into organizations, Chisholm bridged grassroots and local activism with the national state. She also bridged the ongoing black freedom struggle and women's movements, though not without complication...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 129–156.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Long Thanh Bui Abstract This article uses the 2006 experimental documentary Maquilapolis to shed light on the struggles of women workers in export-oriented industrial zones operating under the shadow of Asian global capitalism. My focus complicates the typical reading of the maquiladora factory...
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